'' Whatever the truth about last week's alleged bomb plot, Britain's terrorists registered a big success anyway. Thousands of flights have been cancelled, tens of millions of pounds wasted, millions of travellers subjected to airport nightmares.''
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'' .......... Veterans of World War II mock the chaos that we allow to overtake the country amid a mere terrorist alert. In their day, everybody kept dancing under the bombs, pubcrawled through the blackout, dined at the Dorchester while anti-aircraft guns thundded in Hyde Park.''
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Today, however, we are 60 years past all that. We have become a vastly more risk-adverse society.''
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Max Hastings - Daily Mail 15 August
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