A minor development, but not altogether unwelcome in the light of our scales-crushing luggage haul. Passengers upon flights entering the US may now take on board a carry-on (in the light of the incident at Detroit, hand-luggage had been banned three weeks ago). Good news for us, then (we fly via Miami next Friday), though, donning my political cap, I'm once again confused as to how putting enforced security procedures in place for a short while, only to scrap them weeks later as terrorism exits stage left from the front pages, is in any way an effective deterrent. It would, of course, be utterly cynical, undemocratic and wholly disparaging of me to suggest that political capital trumped the interests of passenger security. So I won't.
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