Lorry drivers and seeing red

Of course, its fucking bonkers to go on the wrong side of these island things. But most of us here do it. And lots of Mbikers do too. In the end, we think of ourselves as not deserving to sit at the back of long jams of four-or-more wheelers. It's called filtering, right? Its an easy step to nipping round these islands.
I know this area well (Shaftesbury Ave leading up to Cambridge Circus, nr the Fire Station). It gets jammed with traffic all the time, and you need to filter down the rh side of the traffic. But then there's those traffic islands. I don't think going down the rhs of those is a dangerous move, provided there's nothing coming the other way. Peds do all kinds of jumping across traffic moves in that area. The only thing you did wrong was misjudge the traffic coming in the other direction slightly. The other driver acted disproportionately by trying to 'punish' you for this error by directing his vehicle at you. The driver will always claim that 'you were in the wrong' so it's best to let those incidents go, and save your comments for those times when your riding is faultless.