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Keeping Calm In London, In Spite Of Terror

Soon after the terrorist attack in London, the Parliament's Twitter account posted a short message restoring business as usual. NPR's Scott Simon remembers another time Brits met terror with calm.
People lay floral tributes to the victims of the March 22 terror attack in Parliament Square outside the Houses of Parliament in central London.

Twitter and other social media platforms often seem anti-social: mean, ugly avenues where people bash, blame and fulminate. But this week, just a couple of hours after the terrorist in front of the British Parliament killed four people and wounded scores of others from

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