I thought that Tony Blair’s speech yesterday was good (especially compared to George Bush’s response in similar circumstances in 2001) but Ken Livingstone has topped it with his in Singapore, especially the end:

Finally, I wish to speak through you, directly, to those who came to London today to take lives. I do know that you do not fear to give your own lives. That is why you are so dangerous. But I do know that you fear you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society.

I can show you why you’ll fail. In the days that follow, look at our airports, look at our seaports, and look at our railway stations. And even after your cowardly attacks, people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.

They choose to come to London, as so many have come before, because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves.

They flee you, because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that. And however many of us you kill, you will not stop their flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another.

Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.

I think my ambition now is to become fat enough that I can fit all that on the front of a t-shirt! Can you imagine, if things had worked out differently, Norris or Archer speaking as well as that for London, and you can’t imagine Blair’s words coming out of Michael Howard’s mouth.