I sat in a pub this lunchtime with a colleague from work. We were talking mainly about the office. Then, our conversation was errupted by a fairly loud bang.

The shock and surprise on both of our faces in response to what was just a cannon announcing 2 minutes of silence said it all. I genuinely thought for a second the terrorists had struck again just when we were all remembering our dead. Even the second shot from the cannon made me flinch. Our conversation then turned to very different matters.

Despite the folly of the BBC who have edited their news reports to remove the word "terrorism" in fact that word is actually too polite for cold-blooder murder by evil thugs who had been deceived by Islamic fundamentalists who are bent on destroying our way of life.

We will need to fight terrorism with strength and justice, but also by reaching out with mercy to the majority of Muslims who are peace-loving.

Perhaps we ought also to insist companies introduce flexi-time so the rush-hour gets more spread out in the mornings and presents less of a target to these people. There may be other simple security measures that are introduced but it will be hard to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again.