A good friend who notes that he’s beginning to take this personally because “the centre of a circle drawn between Tavistock Sq, Russell Sq and Warren St is my back garden” emails:

It does sound like they didn’t quite pull it off this time, though, doesn’t it. That figure of 10,000 going through those training camps could translate into quite an irritating summer.
Oh well, we beat one lot of fascist scum through sheer bloody-mindedness and vast quantities of strong tea. I guess we’ll just have to do it again.

Meanwhile, John Howard, who by chance (well, that and the fact that the Ashes cricket series between England and Australia starts today) happens to be with Tony Blair today, uses the word “evil” repeatedly in his remarks about terrorism. Good on yer, mate.