So it seems that someone has been shot dead this morning on a tube train. I hope he was guilty. In our town's current climate, it's a bad, bad idea for someone of any race to run when confronted by police on the underground. It can only be a worse idea if you're Asian.

There are tough decisions that are going to have to be made in split seconds by many people over the next few weeks. If the police thought there was a real chance that he might detonate something then they absolutely did the right thing. I hope they did think that.

I notice that the press however are making some very dubious split-second decisions. A man was pinned down by armed police outside Whitehall yesterday. Despite broadcasting delayed footage, the TV stations consciously took the decision to show his face.

The police announced early this morning that he'd been released. What happened to him was almost certainly the result of jittery nerves and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Such conclusions are too late for the press though as the todays newspapers splashed his face across all most of their front pages with almost little or no attempt to conceal his identity. I hope he's not made to pay for our lust for coverage.

I had no idea but a friend who works in the square mile told me last night that there are about two controlled exposions a day in the tube stations around their office. A call goes round that one is going to go off and her boss closes the blinds. Then they carry on with work.