"And then he said..."

From Guido (although it's apparently been doing the rounds before he picked it up) comes this notice at Notting Hill Tube station:
Notice to all passengers:Please do not run on the platforms or concourses. Especially if you are carrying a rucksuck, wearing a big coat, or look a bit foreign. This notice is for your own [...]

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Yesterday I went into the Co-Op Bank branch at the Angel to pay a cheque in. It's a rather splendid building that once upon a time used to be a Lyons Corner House, the oh-so-English cafes that were the Starbucks of their times, where stiff-upper-lipped characters in 1940s black and white movies meet up in [...]

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So far, so good in my return to office-based work. The transport network seemed pretty quiet to me, although the Standard was claiming that was because it was the first day of the school holidays.
Whatever the reason, rail and Tube both seemed to have fewer passengers in general, and in particular fewer older people, middle-aged [...]

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Have got two days' work in Islington, today and tomorrow, so I'm back on the Tube for the first time since the bombings began. Will be heading into Waterloo, then to Bank via the drain, then up the Northern to Angel. Right now, taking all things into consideration, my greatest fear is the one that [...]

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Learn the difference!Because today's bunch seem to have been the most singularly inept lot of bombers to hit this city since Verloc and Stevie…

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The BBC is reporting three Tube stations evacuated after 'incidents' and one bus has also experienced an 'incident', whatever that means.
Edit: Police say they're not treating it as a major incident at the moment, and the Tube hasn't been entirely shut down either. Only one report of an injury, at Warren Street. There actually seems [...]

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Having plundered other people's thoughts on the bombings and posted them here, I thought I'd see if I could develop mine beyond my initial 'Blitz Spirit, you can't beat a Londoner with bombs' reaction.
And right now I'm thinking: “Is that it?”
Since September 11th all the doom-laden experts and the politicians have been telling us 'one [...]

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Drink deep, folks
Some of the best of the blogs today:
Make My Vote Count: Being British is Great
We did not panic, we did not crumble. We did not burst into irrational fits of anger and go rushing out looking for a scapegoat, a religious group to lynch or a country to bomb. We decamped to the [...]

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Just posted this on the almost-dead Blogosphere News.
London's bloggers have swung into action almost as quickly as the emergency services following six or seven bomb blasts across the capital this morning.
Among those liveblogging the events – often from their work desks in the City, or from home after being turned back on their morning commute [...]

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Thanks to everyone who's texted to check we're okay – in fact, we haven't left the flat today so we were nowhere near anything that might have been going on in central London earlier.
To be honest, compared with some of the stuff the IRA got up to when I was a kid, this sounds like [...]

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