Someone calling themself number 6 goes along with this? Co-opting people's homes willy-nilly?

And obviously three days of closed roads isn't anything compared with the war. But it is part of an attitude of contempt, which is affecting London much more. Hoi polloi don't matter.

Correction to range - 5 km. Is that enough to get any threat down in time? And the missiles have multiple heads, so multiple risk of harm.

Is the City airport going to be open during the Games? How are they going to be sure that a plane heading there is on course, or spot that it isn't in time? Shouldn't there be no fly arrangements? Are they going to be putting sky marshals on all flights likely to pass near the site? That would be more sensible, surely.

Would they use these missiles on a microlite? A gyrocopter? And what about a ground based missile launcher operated by a terrorist group? Wouldn't people assume it was ours until it was too late? (A friend and I once saw what looked remarkably like a rocket going up from the area of Windsor Great Park under the flight path out of Heathrow - never mentioned in any news.)

I'm not against security - and I'm certainly not against keeping the really effective stuff heavily secret. But I don't like the feeling that we are allowed to be a democracy until we aren't. (I used to get worried by the way The Professionals insinuated themselves into people's homes in order to snipe at people, without any paperwork.) And I recall Marriott Edgar's piece about Magna Carta - And that's why in England we can do as we like, as long as we do as we're told.

Penny