Profiles in outrage

Adrian Wooldridge feels unfairly picked on by airport security

By Adrian Wooldridge

For Christians, the birth of Christ divides history into before and after. For frequent travellers, the crucial date is 9/11. Before then, you could arrive at an airport with a few minutes to spare and stroll onto your plane. Today you are subjected at airport security to a combination of hostility and intimacy that was once reserved for the terminal stages of a bad marriage.

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