British Bloggers Defiant

Online British bloggers are poised with stiff upper lips, sending terrorists a defiant message: we are not afraid.

One Londoner summarised his experience in the aftermath of the atrocities: “Whenever the subject comes up at work, people get this little grin and their eyes go hard. They look resolute and compassionate, ready to stop and help, or make any effort. Not for one second is there any doubt that we love each other, the way of life, or the country (no matter how much we moan about it).”

According to a BBC report however, a group who claimed responsibility for the attack stated, "Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters".

Despite the barbaric attacks, many blogs and websites such as we’re not afraid.com have sprung up, determined to show terrorists that the spirit of the Blitz lives on.

According to BBC news, the blog tracking service Technorati found there to be over 1,300 posts about the terrorist attacks by 10:15 on Thursday morning.

Showing a photo of commuters waiting at a mainline bus stop on Friday morning, one blogger remarked, “Sometimes the mundane borders on the heroic.”

Another exclaimed; “Take that, Al Quaeda. You tried to spread panic with your terrorist ways, but you hadn't counted on a nation of repressed, stiff-upper-lip Brits who refuse to show unseemly emotion in public!”

A note on livejournal.com read; “The people of London have responded to all this exactly the way I always imagined we would; with humour, strength and defiance. I've never been more proud to be British, and never more proud to be a Londoner. Pip pip.”

John Reid said in a statement last Saturday; "We will not bend to the purposes of the terrorists, especially when we can look to the inspiration of those who got through the Blitz and the horrors of World War II. We will not be deflected, we will do what's right.”