Friday 22 July 2011

Getting our priorities right.

Until today two issues dominated the news: the News International telephone hacking and the travails of the Eurozone.   In order of importance the hacking story has been given greater prominence and disgusting as it is the damage it has done is minimal when set against what could have happened had a short-term palliative not been found to the debt contagion issue.

However both issues have been overtaken by the obscene events in Oslo today. It has been quiet of late, but the threat of a terrorist attack in Europe is ever-present.  In London in particular the risk will increase as the Olympic Games come ever closer.

Has our ability to counter terrorist attacks been damaged by the blood-letting at the top of the Metropolitan Police and the distraction to come of the inquiries the government has set up?

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