I've been concerned for a while that Sir Simon Jenkins seemed to be writing sense. It made for a topsy turvy world.

Phew. His piece today shows that he is back to form:

Blair’s desire to associate the London bombs with the global war on terror leads him into dangerous territory. Like a number of MPs in the Commons on Thursday, he implies that Britain fighting to bring democracy to the Arabs is a noble war, but their fighting to bring Islam to London is mere terror. I know there is a difference, but it was Blair who gave terrorism the status of a war. He can hardly complain when his enemy treats it as such.

It's a difficult task ranking the many stupidities in that one paragraph alone, but the last sentence, in which he asserts that the real cause of the bombings is that Mr Blair has chosen to use the word 'war' to label the fight against terrorism, must take the prize for the most bizarrely stupid comment on the murders so far.

(Contrast him with Nick Cohen, who is as superb as ever.)