But I’m not even slightly amused by this one. This has knocked the army back to the 80s, whatever happens soldiers home on leave to areas with a muslim population cannot relax. Instead we’re back to checking the car every morning for IEDs and hiding the uniform while pretending to be a fitness instructor. Which is frankly undignified.

This plot fits perfectly with the sermons Izzadeen etc. have been spouting and I don’t doubt that it’s all too real. Though unless the participants were extravagantly dumb what evidence can you have until the deed is done? A video camera, headband, orange jumpsuit and a breadknife just isn’t going to make the grade, is it? It seems selling hateful material isn’t enough, so the police will have to wait for them to saw someone’s head off before they can be sure of a conviction.

And Sunny’s attempts to equate everything to the BNP bombers are beginning to grip my tits. Why not equate them to Meibion Glyndwr (the Welsh nationalists who never went further than rhetoric and vandalising some English owned holiday homes)? When the BNP manage to blow some randoms to bits, you can have your equivalence. In the meantime they’re not in the same league.

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I don’t condone random acts of violence but people like him seriously test that principle…

And this is John Reids response.

Home Secretary John Reid described the incidents as “worrying”.

But he added: “It is important we allow police to get on with their investigation without undue speculation.”

Touches a bit of a nerve with me. One of the banes of my life is an ex-schoolmate and neighbour who is now ostentatiously rich and succesful. Mum actually saves newspaper cuttings to show me his latest triumph. ‘I see blank has bought Poshbastard Hall’ she will remark, or (last Sunday) ‘I see blank has bought a fleet of executive jets.’ This with a glance at the two year old Clio I bought last month and which I am really quite pleased with. ‘Eee, blank did well for himself in the eighties.’ (i.e., while I was galivanting around the tropics without a pot to piss in).

Twenty odd years of this but, because mum knows his mum, I can’t say, ‘Yes, by smuggling hard drugs from Holland and ruthlessly ripping off everybody he does business with.’

Sorry, just needed to vent.

Now Mum’s pointed it out, you’ll spot it everywhere. Trust me.

Oh yes.

Hmmm I’m uneasy about things like this. I take your point but still part of me wonders if this isn’t hyper sensitivity etc. That said, if in doubt do the right thing. The right thing here for me is probably to shut my mouth before it encounters my foot.

As Londoners you see it correctly, but there are many who know the code.

That too!?! I’ve lived in North London all my adult life (in fact most of my teenage life too) and never once thought “Jewish person” when that phrase has been mentioned. I guess I just don’t see N London as primarily one ethnicity or another…

An interesting post at Pickled Politics about the reporting of the Birmingham terror case. Yet more evidence of the perils of spin? On a related note, you can tell how serious the problem has become when the head of a…

The old buzz phrases,

‘North London Businessman’, ‘Child of Holocaust survivors’, or the alternatives ‘Family own a corner shop in Barnsley’, ‘People in the community’, ‘I spoke with them after Friday prayers’.

I could go on ad nauseam, but need I bother?