23,000 dead

The Pakistan earthquake is still the top story on BBC UK. Quite right too. But I cannot help comparing this with the last time that a single news story dominated the headlines for so many days. That other story was the London bombing, at which 52 people died. Bombs killed 52, earthquake killed 23000. I hope that, in the next months and years, we can retain a sense of perspective about the real dangers in this world.