Looks as if WordPress is having a funny moment. In my links (Stuff I Like) on the sidebar, it’s decided to insert a backslash before an apostrophe. I wonder why? Still, in the greater scheme of things I don’t suppose it’s very important.

This is more serious. A friend who recently flew out from Stansted was searched by security. There’s nothing new in that. We are used to having to take off our jackets, belts, shoes, put any liquid/paste make-up/toothpaste/medication in a clear plastic bag, put mobile phones and computers into a black plastic bin, step through a scanner, and then be body searched. And then quite likely be asked to unpack all the contents of our bags and explain why we have so many paperback books, as if that was somehow suspicious or anti-social. It’s all to combat terrorism and stop people getting onto planes and blowing them up, and I have no problem with that.

However, I’m trying to work out why they found it necessary to ask a respectable 60-year-old lady to step into a cubicle, make her remove her bra, and take it away “for testing”, a process that left her standing naked from the waist up for ten minutes. What were they testing it for? What did they expect to find in it?