Understand Tam; and I know that you don't mean to imply anything derogatory. But it's a fact of life that news coverage of such events is not proportional to the number of victims; neither should it be. In the case of London the interest is higher because it is the centre for most of the country's financial institutions; and it is also the capital. I don't think there would have been significantly more or less fuss made by the media whether there had been 200 or only 5 victims. So, fair or unfair, it's just a fact of life that London commands more attention than Birmingham or Glasgow.

But grief, and surprise, and anger, and any other feelings generated by such events (both in the UK and in other countries) are not measured by wordage either. There are 'Catters who have not posted anything on this - or on the Iraq threads, or the 9/11 ones. This does not mean that they do not care. The media play their game, here as in every country; but we are not sheep either.