I think enough time has passed to reveal that headline, one of many sick jokes doing the round on the internet at the moment. And in case anyone thinks this is an insensitive, ill-timed post, then I’m sorry. But as someone on the discussion thread that I nicked it off said: this is how we deal with things here. And he has a point. Jo Brand got up and spoke at the Trafalgar Square vigil, and in amongst a lot of guff and a lot of genuinely moving speakers, she said the only thing that made the crowd laugh, which was ‘there is one thing that no one else tonight has said about Londoners, and that is that we are tough bastards.’ And part of that is our ability to laugh at, and make jokes of, the most appalling tragedies. I won’t post any more, apart from my favourite: ‘So you wait ages for a London Terrorist attack, and then four come at once’. They’re out there and easy to google if you want to.

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