Canada Day is early this year.

Date: 30 June 2007 02:07:29

The streets of the West End are deserted as the craven Londonistanis cower in their homes after the discovery of the car-bomb in Haymarket.

Oh, well, they don't actually. What they seem to have done is give Trafalgar Square (about one block from last night's failed bomb) over to the Canadian High Commission to put on rock bands and a beer tent selling Moosehead in honour of Canada Day. (two or three other pictures on Flickr if you follow the link)

Except that Canada Day isn't till Sunday. Maybe they moved it to make room for Gay Pride tomorrow. Or maybe they'll be back.

Gosh, aren't we oppressed by those nasty Muslim fundamentalists?

And a Critical Mass on the same evening. They seem very well behaved these days. People mostly like Critical Mass. Even most car drivers. Its silly. Its funny. It gets a laugh. People smile when it goes past, even if only at the antics of all the silly old hippies (its funny, but its no longer at all cool).

This one had about a one to five ratio of police cyclists to demonstrators. I've never seen as many police cyclists in one place - I counted at least twenty-five and there were others leading and following that I missed. And they did seem to be having an awful lot of fun. Laughing and chatting. I mean the police, not the rest of them. If I didn't know better I'd have thought they were participating in it rather than policing it.