Ok, so last post I was on about Darling Harbour. One thing I didn’t mention is that it was also a key location of the APEC summit in late 2007 – yes, that major world economics conference at which George Bush added to his collection of highly embarrassing and internationally televised gaffes, such as calling it the OPEC summit in front of, well, lots and lots of people.

But what you may not have caught on international telly – ok, unless you happen to watch CNN, in which case you would have seen reruns approximately every four minutes for a week – was this very special guest appearance by Osama bin Laden. Amidst “the tightest security this country’s ever seen…”