This August marks the anniversary of the government's decision to ban liquids in "sensitive" places - aeroplanes, Holyrood Palace, and who knows where else?

As with all these new security restrictions they achieve nothing but disruption with travellers now being treated worse than criminals. If you value your self-respect when you travel then please ( Read more... )

It's election day here in Scotland and it's got me thinking again: Instead of just giving you a ballot paper with a bunch of names and parties on it, why aren't there computer terminals at polling stations that provide the conscientious voter with the opportunity to actually read about the policies of the person/party that they are voting for? We ( Read more... )

The BBC are reporting a bomb scare at Edinburgh Airport. Apparently somebody left a new rucksack in a bin at the check-in area. Of course, this leaves open two possibilities:

1) A traveler, on discovering that the ridiculous & ineffective new security measures require that they only take with them just one piece of hand baggage sans water or coke ( Read more... )