later, the uk's head of counterterrorism policing backed sara khan on extremism.ateful extremism, and you are seeing the consequences in terms of the terrorist threat? yeah, i mean, i don't just think that. that's what the joint terrorist analysis centre would say. it's what the home office office of security and counterterrorism would say, it's what their internal unit would say, and it's what my experts would say. just overall, what impact has covid and the subsequent lockdown had on your work in counterterror policing? what i am seeing particularly in the right—wing terrorism space and this is anecdotal so it is not academic, but there is an increase in lots of young people being attracted to this. so, we are seeing people as young as 13 starting to talk about committing terrorist acts. when you've been locked down with social media having such an influence on every single one of us and our daily lives, and you're able to sit there and just take all of that in on a permanent basis with no other form of distraction or protective factor around you — and i'm think