Armed police

Apparently, the police are on precautionary high alert today. That would explain the sniffer dog and four armed police on Platform 8 at Kings Cross this morning.

On a related note, Juan Cole reports that the War on Terror is over:

The Bush administration is giving up the phrase “global war on terror.”

I take it this is because they have finally realized that if they are fighting a war on terror, the enemy is four guys in a gymn [sic] in Leeds. It isn’t going to take very long for people to realize that a) you don’t actually need to pay the Pentagon $400 billion a year if that is the problem and b) whoever is in charge of such a war isn’t actually doing a very good job at stopping the bombs from going off.

Do read the rest of the excellent article.

On a possibly related note, Cool beans.