“London has been at a severe level of threat from terrorism for a number of years and, in the current climate, attacks such as the ones we have seen are totally irresponsible as such behaviour can be used as cover for more sinister criminal activity.”

That’s the plod explaining why it’s perfectly OK for them to erect enormous security barriers to keep protestors out of sight of un-President George W. Bush and, like, scary and wrong for them to try to get near enough to him to tell him to fuck off and die.

“In the current climate”: anyone who uses these words should be spat on. That should be the instinctive, physical response of every thinking person to hearing such imbecility coming from a public figure. How dare they talk to us like that.