MI-5 and the Met have led the way with their excuses - a bloody massacre of hundreds packed like sardines in late and filthy trains is ‘only a matter of time’, and the press are dutifully passing this on to innure us to the ‘inevitable’ bloodshed.

Where are the leading stories of totally unprepared tube stations, the dearth of emergency beds, blood shortages, lack of breathing apparatus, bio-hazard suits etc etc? Are we saving these for later ’special editions’?

Will someone please smash a hole in this complacency. Plain clothed officers on the trains - was that a joke? How many people would (sorry Tony, will) eleven bombs in the rush hour tube kill and maim? Has anyone asked Number Ten? Are we really ready for this?

"However, there had been a number of inquiries, all of which had, in one or another, addressed the issue of integrity."

Contrast this with Chapter 1, Paragraph 9 of Hutton’s report:

"There has been a great deal of controversy and debate whether the intelligence in relation to weapons of mass destruction set out in the dossier published by the Government on 24 September 2002 was of sufficient strength and reliability to justify the Government in deciding that Iraq under Saddam Hussein posed such a threat to the safety and interests of the United Kingdom that military action should be taken against that country. This controversy and debate has continued because of the failure, up to the time of writing this report, to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I gave careful consideration to the view expressed by a number of public figures and commentators that my terms of reference required or, at least, entitled me to consider this issue. However I concluded that a question of such wide import, which would involve the consideration of a wide range of evidence, is not one which falls within my terms of reference."

Downing Street are trying to have it both ways.