So here we are at the end of one of the worst days in british history i can remember.

Horrible day, but with all respect to anyone who was affected by this, we should be glad that it was not worse, it could easily have been.  From the reports of the bus bomber, it looks like they failed in a horiffically cunning plan.  I think the idea was once the blasts got everyone out of the trains and clammouring for the busses, ready for that bus to pull into a packed station.  Luckily the bus was diverted, and when the driver stopped to ask for direction, our fanatic coward freaked and triggered it.  If that bastard had got to a station many more people would have been hurt.

Please dont think im trying to lessen the importance of this event.

I spoke to hannah and was very relieved to hear she was okay.  Hearing her recount sounded rather surreal and being the modest angel she is she felt more sorry for us outside because she knew she was okay and feared for those who couldnt get through.  When she got to the training office - out of the centre of london thank god - they were unaware. A few turned up late because of 'delays' They were told to put their phones on silent.  Then soon before i got hold of her a woman came in with a tv and hurridley turned it on and the panic began, by then all the mobile networks were rammed and those who had arrived late felt uncomfortable about their complaints about public transport.  Then i got through to her after finding a number to ring at her main work, who gave me the number of the training centre.  Apparently my voice "sounds like a man".  Ive never been so relieved to hear someones voice.  I heard back from my other london froends Terry and Sas much to my relief.

Im still worried now, but more for what the next few weeks bring,.  Today, London will have seen, much as New York saw, some of the bravest, most selfless acts of support.  Strangers helping strangers with no gain.  Busses were freed up to ship walking wounded to hospitals.  A strength and unity that never happens day to day in our relentlessly cruel country.  But now that all the good is done in the face of such evil, the need for revenge with no instant face to convict will be diverted elsewhere.  Blair will be criticised, the emergency services will be slated for not doing more.  This latter i dearly hope i am wrong about.  I remember a year or so ago, London being hampered as a demonstration was carried out to deal with a opossible biological attack.  Complaints made newspapers.  I thought it was a good idea and today proved it.  You cannot be prepared for this kind of horrific event and many thanks and empassioned praise should be heaped on the emergency services for their efforts, pouring in from surrounding counties, doctors being helicoptered over blocked/closed roads to get to the injured.  A magnificent show of the good that we humans can do.  But within days the good journalism will have gone. Papers will be full of unflattering pictures of politicians and complaints tha not enough was done.  TV journalists will deliver reports on the terrible events with sickeningly cringeworthy melodrama as they see their big chance to further their careers out of the suffering of others.  I hope this once it at least holds off for a while.  Blair, Howard, even Charles Kennedy and Ken Livingstone all impressed me with their strong face in front of something that no matter what is said, was inevitable.  Even president bush's comments seemed less smug than it easily could have.

But my thoughts are with the people involved in this horror.  It was a surreal feeling watching the events in New York, but after that day we knew that somewhere, sometime, we would be struck.  Like the death of a relative, we can prepare as best we can, but we can never truly be ready.  I dearly hope that the death count stays as low as possible.  Not only for the obvious reasons, but to push in the face of the bastards that planned it that they did not do more damage.  I hope that despite how horrific it was, sadly in this respect the terrorists succeeded in spreading terror, that we can pick ourselves up.  That we can be more intelligent than to become more hostile towards muslims simply because of the acts of a handful of pathetic misinterpreting fools.  We were revelling in the fact well host the olympics, and full of hope that the G8 summit can change the world for the better.  And that is the painful cunning of this attack.

My heart goes out to anyone affected by the events of the last 24 hours.  My thoughts and prayers are with you and hope that tomorrow will bring renewed strength and determination to deny these few fanatic fools their cowardly glee.  Ill leave this blog with a copy of part of Livingstones speech.  Ive already stated that it sounds as clichéd as a hollywood blockbuster, but that doesnt mean that they were not needed to be said.

This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.  That isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith - it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder......

Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.....  Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.

have strength.