A few hours over a year ago I was still planning on seeing Queen perform in Hyde Park with Gillian Horvath and Donna Lettow. Not that Gillian and Donna would be on stage... oh, work with me here...you know what I mean.

One of several bombs detonated in the capital that day was in a bus about 30 yards away from where I would have been staying 48hrs later in London, so that put a stop to the whole trip and though the '7/7' comparison to 9/11 is misleading, erroneous and annoying, it was a day when the so-called 'war' came home.

I'm not sure we've learned or changed a single thing in the year since. People walk about London freely. They use buses, the Tube and won't be shirked by rumours of terror plots. The government stills spins (and sticks by its guns that this had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq - depsite a pre-explosion video from one of the bombers saying it was, which in anyone's book has to be pretty definitive, damning evidence). The public still sees the bombers as ruthless sick people who think it's alright to kill innocents to make political points and it's done nothig for their cause - if they ever truly had one.

The July 7th bombings achived nothing except tragedy for the individuals caught up in it and those they left behind.


And I still haven't seen Queen live.