Why was reading that worth it? Load of waffling crap and it fails to mention the second biggest factor that contributes to our ability to stand up to and return to normality from just about anything anyone will throw at us. The decades of terrorism from the IRA.

On Radio 1 on the way to work the following day - they played Chumbawumba's Tub Thumping - because it had been request more than everything else put together. As a piece of music it's crap. As a message, it defines our very nature

"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You ain't ever going to keep me down"

We just got up again, because we got knocked down again. We've done it before and invariably we'll do it again. Terrorism on these islands simply wont work, because we dont want it to.

Doug