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Since 2017, the UK has seenfifteenterrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast iceberg. Security services are striving to contain a staggering 3,000jihadists, far-right extremists and otherpotential threats. We are in a new age of terror, with self-radicalising, hard-to-categorise individuals planning violencebut each one caught by the British state tells us something about British society.For every successful plot in the five years since Westminster Bridge, more than twice as many have been foiled. Some were thwarted by nerve-wracking undercover operations; others were narrowly averted by heroic citizens, or ruined by the absurd mistakes of would-be attackers. Invariably, the all-too-human stories of these failed terrorists reveal the true picture of UK extremism.Through interviews with senior counter-terror figures and astonishing court testimony,Plottersunpacks how and why British terror attacks happenand dont.From datingwebsitesand prison cells to Telegram networks and Tesco knives, Lizzie Deardens deep dive offers one disturbing certainty: the plotters will keep coming. To confront them, we need to understand them.