Friday, January 26, 2007
Two policewomen, with guns, stand outside the entrance to my local tube station. After 18 police-free months their sudden appearance comes as an unexpected jolt. The pair chat quietly to one another, their cloudy breath floating off into the early morning chill. They're not looking at anything, or anyone, in particular. They're just observing the steady drip of bleary-eyed commuters streaming past, ensuring that their armed presence is noticed. Presumably they're trying to make us all feel safer. Alas, they're having completely the opposite effect.
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