TOday, at 8.49am, the development of mass steading at the King’s King’s station London been silent. It continued to move, because the world should turn, but Hubbub stopped. Hours earlier, an odd quiet, the Sombre Lournspeaker announcing the chance that 7/7 terrorist bombs exploded in 2005, killing 57 people and destroyed more than 770s.
Capital works, but Capital remains. I stand for a minute under the shining light on a digital clock. People are offered to know views and nods when they pass to get their trains. At the time of bombing, I covered London and mayorally in London for Guardian. I remember called by colleagues asking for information about what they told the first time a giant electrical failure on the bottom of London. I was warned that week about fears of official circles that some kind of terrorist attacks, if it were not likely. I like contact. “It is not an incident of electricity, is it?” “No,” they replied severe, “no.”
Some things I have forgotten, but others remain with me. The calm of the stations, even between horror, even if no one knows if there are many bombs, more devices. The relative calming of the streets. The inhabitants of town are like dysfunctional families, and less in Britain’s capital. They put things worthless and empty, but stop all that if something serious happens, if they need to find bundles binding.
Ten three people were killed when the youngest firefighters fired his device on the left 30 double-decker buses away from the cross of the King, in Tavistock Square. All the buses stopped that morning, but in the afternoon, they ran again and the London people boarded them.
Something I remember was the Mayor’s reaction to London, Ken Livingstone. She is a controversial figure in her time in public life, first as a two finger of calling the government of whatcher with her leader who does not like, but, in the first years of dislike.
For a time, he was sad. It does not last, and at the end of his political time, he is very well losing goodwill and keeps his political achievements, repetitive comments that talked correctly. He resigned from Labor Party in 2018, that was suspended two years ago In his comments, raised by his denial of any party antisemitism. The Livingstone apologizes for any offense, and presses his comments not antisemuntic. In 2023, it was announced that he had Alzheimer’s and retired from public life.
If Livingstoner is well-versed, I admire him. When he was stupid and hurtful, I also said that. Boris Johnson-Support London Night Standard, my former employer, once I mean I’m an uncritical Livestone cronyTeaches an independent research project that the City Hall has been ordered. But a crowd of my stories critical to Livingstone is the quick lie that.
So it’s not a blithe test to rehabilitate Livingstone. But 20 years ago, on the day of 7/7, as Mayor in London, he gave an example of political leadership before trauma and despair. This is exactly what time is needed, but also emphasizes the lack of community that is always accepted as a way of being active acting active divisions of profits active regardless of collateral.
In a quick-called Press Conference, in a dark suit, in a steady voice, but in the eyes that were slightly shinning, Livingstone said: “I want to say something specific to the world today. It is not a terrorist attack against the mighty, banks of the banks of mental.
It is not an ideology, he said: “This is not a perverted faith – it is an unintentional test of londons. They are not divided into this cowardly attack.
Finally, he said: “I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life. I know about giving up your own to take you to your long-term objective to destroy our long-term objective to destroy your long-term objective to destroy our long-term objective And I can show you why you will fail.
“In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain to become londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their dreams and achieve their Potential. They choose to come to London, as so many have before, because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they flee you because you tell. They don’t want that and nothing and nothing and nothing you do, however Us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however you kill, you will fail. “
It’s hard to reconcile how the pitch is perfect with her later, terrible to treat one of the loved communities in London. But that day, he took a strategy that was completely disguised with me and another. It says, we are London, we are different, we are more than we should be and how we live. You, the attacker, don’t like – and, on the way, we never care; We have rejected you. London spent the dead and wounded. London went on.
And it’s not just London: Up and down the country, there are, for all the challenges and difficulties of doing so, communities seeking to live that way, for their political, social, owological or criminal – seek to achieve exactly the opposite. Twenty years, reject it too.
Hugh Muir is a columnist in Guardian
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