There's two events in the news at the moment with interesting views in retrospect.

Firstly 9/11. There's Commisson hearings going on in New York at the moment to understand what happened. There's no doubt that there were mistakes made. 911 phone operators misadvised some people to stay put causing more deaths, fire teams could not deal let alone comprehend what happend. But it seems to me that a lot of the hate and anger is misdirected. A case in point is how Giuliani has been heckled. "My son was murdered," screamed Sally Regenhard, mother of a fireman who died. Other relatives joined in and the room was in uproar. To what end ? Does it help us comprehend it?

Im sure lessons can be learnt and there is no doubt the world has now changed and we take the the threats, real and perceived seriously.

However, compare this with the recent scenes at the House of Commons. Sure, we prepared against a threat and installed a security screen at a cost of 2 million pounds. But, did we enclose the press ? Or indeed the first three rows of the public gallery ? No. The reason for this ? Well, the first three rows are used for guest of members of the House of Lords. So, was it a suprise when the guest of a member of the House of Lords managed to flour bomb the Prime Minister ? Perhaps not to you or me, but to the people who speant 2 million pounds of my money the answer would seem to be yes.