The Stop Aids Campaign, comprising a coalition of over 70 NGOs, assembled on Calton Hill in Edinburgh today to send a message to G8 leaders that the "world is watching".
Except it wasn't. The organisers of the event were visibly shaken, preoccupied with ringing London and gathered around a car radio, anxious for news of the bomb blasts.
The mock leaders and giant eyeballs posed for a final picture, solely for the benefit of a press they couldn't quite believe had turned up. But no one's heart was in it and they knew the world's focus had shifted.
