Charlie Stross is not optimistic about the side effects of the highly anticipated Indian-Pakistan dust-up:
If a major war breaks out over Kashmir, then what are the chances that some of the hot-heads on either side will try to settle scores on the streets of British cities? In the worst-case scenario, all the fuel is in place for a conflict on the same scale as the Troubles to break out on the mainland — concentrated in England, specifically in the south-east and the midlands — with 95% of the population cast as innocent by-standers.