This morning I heard that the man shot dead on Friday in London was innocent. He was an innocent Brazilian, not a terrorist. Now, it seems, the police can shoot dead whoever they suspect off being a suicide bomber, and, frankly, this fact scares me.

I think the government is gittery: two weeks ago, we faced a concerted terrorist attack on a scale and in a style never seen before. This past Thursday, there was an attempt to repeat that. And, early on Saturday, there was a huge attack in Egypt. Little wonder that the government is proposing tougher terrorism laws.

Yet this begs the question: where is this going to end? We are bound to see even tougher laws now, which will probably restrict our individual freedoms further. Will we be prevented from buying certain products which could, potentially, be made into bombs? Will we be prevented from meeting in groups of more than, say, three? This could make Christmas dinner interesting. All joking aside, these are the types of changes, I think, which will logically have to occur if we are truly to defend ourselves. Thus if you look at it like this, if we are to maintain our freedoms, as we know them now, we will have to leave ourselves open to the risk of more terrorist attacks.

Wow. I’m being deep for a Sunday morning. Bombs or not, I better go find breakfast!