I used to live about a 5 minute walk away from Borough market, Southwark is great borough, such a shame to see this happening on my old doorstep.

It pains me to say it, but Stefen is right. Britain is so disjointed and tribal nowadays. I'm not totally comfortable with some of the hard-right rambling of much of Stefans audience, but it is pretty clear now that our freedoms and our communities are being targeted by the predatory and militant section of the Muslim population, which at the very least is a sizable minority of the whole Muslim population. I seriously worry about what the next few years have in store. If we learned anything from the troubles in Belfast it is that didn't take long for communities that had been living side by side for an awful long time to decend into anarchy. This new sectarian crisis is shaping up to be far bloodier. What concerns me the most is that i don't see growing tolerance, i see a growing ignorance, none more so than from the political classes that flatly refuse to take any proactive measures. Our freedoms are in peril, don't confuse liberalism with cowardice.