The London bombs attacks a week ago today were horrific, tragic and indiscrminate. No reasonable person can condone an attack where the civilian population was the primary target and where more than fifty people were slaughtered. The attacks have shocked people in London and around the world but they didn't come as a total surprise. The world has become a much less secure place since the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, violence has increased and ordinary people all over the world are the main victims Free article

Once again, nationalists in various parts of the Six Counties are subject to the annual ritual of sectarian intimidation and attack as the Orange bandwagon forces its way through their neighbourhoods. And again the PSNI has shown that is only too willing to exacerbate tension by attacking nationalist protestors. Free article