RE: Increased security at London Heathrow.

Scary times, Arthur? I guess it depends where you were born
and grew up. I’m sitting less than a mile from a pub that
the IRA blew up in the 1970s and travelled to London every
day via a railway station and past a restaurant that were
also subject to bomb attacks at the time I worked there.

Well, considering i’m from just across the border from former RAFG Brüggen and Wildenrath, a total of three IRA attacks happened within my everyday surroundings. One hand grenade attack and the gunning of (accidental) Australian tourists both in Roermond, and a gunning near a restaurant/bar on the border towards Wildenrath. And if you add the handgrenade attack on a few Laarbruch-servicemen a bit to the north, i can’t say i have never been aware of the existance of terrorism.

But it didn’t scare me back then, and neither does it now. That is, as long as the anti-terrorism-awareness doesn’t grow out of control and turns into total paranoia (so yes JJ, i agree with you).