[Andy McDandy]

Every now and again, the tabloids will send a junior reporter through an airport, carrying a box labelled "bomb", and they will then run a headline about "Chilling lack of security as holiday Brits jet off". What if it wasn't just a cardboard box? What if they had got to the planes? What do we put on the front page, nothing's happening?

I appreciate this is more than just standing outside the base perimeter wiggling their bums, but calls to charge these people with treason (see Littlecock today) are frankly ludicrous.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Would it have been seen as terrorism if they had broken into Heathrow, and spray painted the engine on an El Al aircraft

Good question. It wasn’t terrorism to smash up Barclays Bank. I’d say no but it would probably be cumulative.