What was the goal of this morning's bombings at the British consulate in midtown? To somehow affect the British election, happening today? To somehow affect New Yorkers, who aren't terribly fond of bombings? To screw up Third Avenue traffic? A certain British playboy-about-town acquaintance of ours suggests that maybe it was a plot to silence Tina Brown. Her Knight in shining armo(u)r, hubby Harry Evans, was scheduled to co-host "a British Elections Night Party" (the invitation, natch, is rather restrained) tonight at that very consulate. Coincidence?

ACTUAL NEWS HERE: We just got off the phone with the consulate. The party is still on. Stiff upper lips, indeed. —JO

British Consulate-General, New York [britainusa.com]

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