ABSTRACT
Five days later four bombs exploded in central London, killing 52 and injuring hundreds. Blair left the G8 Scotland retreat a few hours after the explosions to come to London to give a press conference and look in control. Soon, these terrible events became known as 7/7 (in a mediatic imitation of the American tendency to simplify, codify and memorize, a rather ineffectual antidote to postmodern historical amnesia) and drove off the front pages the humanitarian partying of 2/7 and London’s victory in the race to host the 2012 Olympics which had been announced on 6 July, between the two events.
