"We have not included the unforgivable Palestinian terror attacks and suicide bombings in Israel due to their sheer number."

"Islam and terrorism don`t go together."

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, was in Singapore on Thursday, having helped London`s successful Olympic bid. His stricken face showed his shock, and of course he condemned the attacks. Then he analysed them.

They were not, he said, attacks "against the mighty and the powerful", but against "working-class Londoners". Would they have been all right, one wondered, if they had been against the mighty and powerful, or if they had cleverly found a way of killing only middle-class Londoners?