2 Minuts of Silence

A press release issued by the office of the Mayor of London on Tuesday contains the following:

“Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, said: 'On Thursday 14 July London will remember all of those who died last Thursday and show its defiance of those who try to change the character of our city through terror. At noon millions of Londoners will observe two minutes silence. Every bus in the city will stop, businesses will stop and I want everyone who can to come out of their workplaces and homes onto the streets of London to remember those who died and to show their complete defiance of the terrorists.’ ”

So we did. Shortly before noon we shut off the switchboards and went to stand outside on Wardour Street. The offices around us had also gone to stand out on the street.

It was 30C and sunny. The traffic seemed deafening at first. Then the bells at St. Anne's Church down the road rang the 12 strokes of noon. The traffic slowly came to halt, and there was barely any noise. Only a few dazed tourists nervously walked about.

It was the quietest I have ever heard Soho.

Here is an article about it from the Guardian.

I will be going to Trafalgar Square after work for the further vigil.