[spoilers] Recurring Themes in Season 8

[JHyde]

So many of the problems in homegrown terrorism, especially in the UK, find their origins in poverty. It in no way excuses what they do, I can't emphasize that enough. But you only have to look at the major threats of our time to see they find their roots in misguided interventions (both at home and abroad) and post-colonial planning. And I'm not even getting into politics here (I'm being very careful not to) - this is history, the record of many different types of historians over the last hundred years, that tells us that.

To bring it back from my own rhetoric, this is definitely something Harry has acknowledged at various points over the show's run. And it's definitely the feeling of the times.

This difference in how they see the world and Britain is also one of the major conflicts between MI5 and Six, I suspect.