Why is the fact that someone is a DJ, however well regarded, seen as somehow relevant in a non-music thread? I mean, maybe it's interesting, but...
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Pity this thread's been soured up so. It's always a mistake to respond to personal attacks, or rise to intentional provocation by people making posts that oversimplify or distort the facts, but I think the main blame when this happens lies with those who set out to provoke the reaction rather than than the people who react.

It seemed to me that it made sense for a thread more about how people in London and around were reacting to the bombings, alongside the other one which seemed to be shaping up to be more about the whys and wherefores. And I know this one started out as a conspiracy thread, but threads drift, and this seemed to be drifting in a useful way for a while. So I'll try to drift it back.

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We went up to London on Friday 15th - we'd been planning to go the previous Friday, but the day after the bombings seemed a bit soon. Still you can't put things off too long, or you'd never do anything.

Can't say people seemed particularly nervous, either on the train, the tube or the riverbus we took down to Kew Gardens, which was our destination. They checked the bags on the boat going out, but for some reason not coming back. (Incidentally the boat going out had a plaque on the wall and a poster explaining how it had been one of those which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. These boats last a long time)

On the way back we stopped off in Trafalgar Square, where they were showing the First Night of the Proms on a giant screen. Thinnish crowd, but that might have been because it was Michael Tippet's music, rather than because of bombs. Normal mixed up London crowd. We noticed a lady in full head-to toe burkha sitting on a bench listening to the music.

One thing, on the way home, first on a bus and then on a train, a fellow passenger was eager to start a conversation with us, which normally doesn't tend to happen with Londoners. Maybe that might have reflected a reaction to the odd times, and a way of dispelling the tension - if people travelling by Public Transport in London became a bit friendlier instead of ignoring each other that would be an unlooked for and healthy by-product of the bombs.