Mounting Panic

Horses belonging to the best army in the world (the British one, for those who trotted in late) have again bolted in London, this time terrified by public transport rather than by a rubble drop. The animals, whose moral fibre must have been sapped by talking to the ones from last time, threw their riders and galloped around the city while bouncing off occasional bits of traffic. It is certainly encouraging that a military establishment long unable to manage modern vehicles has extended its Britishness to archaic ones. Clearly the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment is doing its part in suppressing the deplorable heresy that military animals should be trained to display equanimity in the face of loud noises or unexpected movements.