I arrived in Northern Ireland yesterday around 9 am. On my way to Helen’s Bay, where I shall be living for a month, I was unable to appreciate the seriousness of the main story occupying the British media:
Heathrow, London’s main airport, is normally thronged with cross people in queues at this time of year. But on Thursday August 10th the lines became serpentine and the people in them more anxious than querulous as news spread that the police and security services had thwarted a plot to blow up several planes bound for America (read more).
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Nota bene: the title of this post appears to have disappeared and of course I was unable to recall it, 3 July 2023.