IT'S difficult to find words that haven't already been used to describe those behind yesterday's London bombing outrage.

Scum somehow doesn't seem a strong enough description of the cowards who bring terror, horrific injury and death to ordinary people - men women and children - heading for work, school or just on a day trip into our capital city.

Many have different views about some things that are happening in the world.

But Live8, for example, shows that mass peaceful protest can bring about real change.

The events of the past week inspired by the plight of Africa and the likes of Bob Geldof have had a real effect on the world's top political leaders.

Wreaking death and destruction merely unites people of widely differing views in their determination never to give in to the terrorists.

Witness yesterday Blair, Bush and a poker-faced Ken Livingstone singing from the same hymnsheet and pledging that, as London's mayor put it: "Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail."

The Muslim Council of Britain also called for a united effort to help police track down the murderers saying: "The evil people who planned and carried out these explosions want to demoralise us as a nation and divide us as a people."

We are all united and know we will never bow to terror.