Una wrote:

Further to this, and in conjunction with the one about representations >of terrorism in British media, I read this morning that a car bomb went off outside BBC Television Centre last night:

Dead right it did - I heard it from - ooh, about 9 miles away - just as I was closing down my computer for the night! And I'd been wondering whether to respond to this thread by saying that there was certainly an IRA mainland bombing campaign in the early 1970s, as I worked for the Post Office and was part of a team that managed security for its London computer centres during that time. And even further back, when I was a little girl, I recall being held up on the North Circular Road when an IRA bomb went off one Easter somewhere near Stonebridge Park and burst a water main. Plus ca change..... Anyway, by not replying immediately, I was able to roll two replies into one... It was bloody scary last night, though, hearing that so clearly and knowing what it meant....

(Muted) Cheers Frances