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No reporting of compensation being offered to the Medway Flying School, though a ministry spokesperson said that closing them down was perfectly normal. All of a piece with the destruction of businesses in the Olympic park area.

Anyone remember about Athens, and what has happened to Greece since?

And I shouldn't whinge about being protected? I'm in range of the missiles on Blackheath and Shooters Hill, and under a place where the planes turn on their way to or from Heathrow. (Only just worked this out, I've been thinking of the people in East London.)

But to practicalities. Any use of the missiles requires prime ministerial agreement. They lie a few minutes from the stadium. How is this going to be useful? There isn't going to be any time. The sites are all in a line, N and S of the stadium. Assuming that there's no need to protect the site from the west, I'd have gone for an arc, further out.

And very intense intelligence observation of likely internal threats, the buzz online, any suggestion of Breivik types, and getting people to be part of it, looking out for unusual behaviour. And getting microlite schools on side - the Medway guy has said he would have been able to watch out for trouble from fliers.

You don't have to defend people by putting them at risk, and showing them they have no rights, anyway.

Penny