It's come to something when a mum with a babe in arms is forced to drink baby milk to prove she is not a suicide bomber.
Tomorrow's front page is devoted largely to today's revelations of a plot for mass murder over the Atlantic. The tone of our coverage is that, despite this great success for our police and security services, who have potentially saved thousands of lives, this must still be seen as a partial victory for the terrorists in terms of the lasting damage this could cause to our daily existence.
Good grief, could you stand travelling across the Atlantic (or for that matter to Majorca?) without a book to read? Can you imagine heading to Liverpool or Manchester airports this weekend with your family, fully expecting to be stuck in queues for hours with lots of other nervous and exasperated people? If that's where you're going you have my every sympathy.
Hopefully there will be a swift reappraisal of what constitutes a security risk so that travellers can tell each other: "Stuff Al-Qaeda, now pass me a bottle of Pepsi and my Maeve Binchy."
