The media has faithfully been doing the government’s propaganda work for it this week by talking up all the big military exercises and showing off ahead of the Olympics. Witness the elite, seriously tooled up British forces parading their capabilities, ready for anything. A massive muscle-flexing exercise to shit up and terrorists, or the population at large, from trying anything during the big blow out.

Less well publicised is the casual approach to security shown by some of those ‘elite forces’ at a tower block in Tower Hamlets. A local resident was most surprised on coming out of his building to fi nd a huge pile of seriously hardcore-looking military equipment; guns, missile-launchers, suspicious looking bags and boxes all heaped up around the front door. And nobody anywhere to be seen. It’s as if discovering Parcelforce have just delivered Armageddon to your door, without even stopping to get a signature. Cue hasty arrival of embarrassed soldiers, from whereabouts unknown.

Fortunately for us, we live in the 21st century and every second person carries a video camera in their pocket. See the amusing scene here. (Well not quite whole scene; we don’t see the soldiers arrive, but we imagine it along the lines of Right lads, we’ve unloaded all the vital equipment and weapons, stick’em over there – now, anyone fancy a coffee?)