Narrative Surprises

The Home Office has compiled what it calls a narrative - less comprehensive than an inquiry, less true than a report - detailing those circumstances surrounding the July bombings which the Home Office feels comfortable in telling us about. A mere nine months after the atrocity, the Home Office has discovered that the British government's slightly more well-meaning atrocity in Iraq was a key "contributory factor" in the radicalisation of the bombers. Other contributory factors include "economic deprivation, social exclusion and a disaffection with society in general, as well as community elders", doubtless not necessarily in that order. The Observer states that "the findings will prove highly embarrassing to Tony Blair" which, in light of the Reverend's past record, seems a little over-optimistic.