it was on our Underground route into London from Stanford Rivers.  Pretty grim, but the Tube got you to where you were going. And safe, not that we gave that much thought. I told my friend Bob (son of the local police chief here) that the Brit police didn't carry guns and were almost never injured. . Eliciting the sour retort that London was safe for the police and the crooks.

So it was a mixture of some  nostalgia and  as it then  turned out considerable pleasure  I saw it on the Internet tonight. Along with a young colored guy tazered by coppers after he had swung an ax badly injuring a white 50-year old ,  shouting "that's for Syria" .

As the axer writhed, suffering I hope, on the ground a husky very angry black ,ran up and from 6 feet away shouted down at him . Causing me to cheer,.

As did  the House of Commons as David Cameron, casual, slightly amused said  more or less ' all of us have given our speeches about terrorism but none of us have done it better than a Londoner last night saying  ................................

....." You ain't no Muslim ...Bruv"