Today’s Guardian has an article about restrictions on liquids in aircraft being “lifted”, but what the article says is far from clear. It talks about a new EU initiative that will allow up to 100ml bottles of liquid on board if they are carried in a transparent bag, but within Europe it has always be OK to carry liquids if they are purchased airside. Is that now to be stopped? A typical bottle of water is around 500ml, after all. And how does the transparent bag rule relate to the “one carry-on bag only” rule? We also learn that it is now OK to take liquids purchased airside on board flights leaving the US, but apparently not on flights to the US. Confused? You will be.

To make matters worse, the article mentions a recent survey finding that 90% of people believe the new security measures have made air travel safer (which just goes to show how little most people know about making bombs) and that a similar number would be happy to see iris photography and fingerprinting introduced here. So all of you Brits who are refusing to travel to the US because you don’t want to be fingerprinted…