One year later ..
For all of us in Britain and most especially those of us who live in London, today has been the first anniversary of the four suicide bombs that killed a total of 52 people and injured many more. Last year, I was fortunate that I was not in London – I was out in High Wycombe helping to run a training course and saw events unfold on the television in the company canteen. This year, much more typically, I travelled on the tube into central London and at noon I marked the two-minute silence with colleagues at Postwatch.
Londoners have responded well to the terrorist attack. After just a few weeks, numbers on the tube and both shoppers and tourists returned to normal. People are not overly concerned and relations between ethnic groups have not suffered. Of course, for all the comparisons, this was not an event on the scale of 9/11 in the United States. Also, almost certainly, it will not be the last such attack. But life has to go on …