"If the intention was to further divide people, this attack failed because it has achieved the opposite."

The anonymous writer behind Spitalfields Life posts a report on the aftermath of the firebombing of London anarchist publisher The Freedom Press.

"It might be disheartening, if it were not for the flood of well-wishing and offers of help we have received from all over the world. Disparate groups in the radical hinterland have laid aside their differences and come together in solidarity."

I certainly hope the perpetrators never invoke the right to freedom of speech or expression to justify any of their actions.