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The BBC's gushing write-up was also pretty galling - the media editor is another Lebedev protegé.

If all else fails, my photoshop skills should earn me a decent living in Turkish media.

tbf she does make a fool of him here:

https://twitter.com/LawyerRogelio/status/842863483733655552

No news of David Rockefeller death on bbc? Y tho.

Edit - on there now

Why wouldn't the bbc report David Rockefeller's death? Genuine question.

Tablets and laptops to go in hold baggage from a variety of Middle East countries. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/uk-set-to-ban-laptops-on-flights-from-middle-east-countries

Not sure why it is safer for them to be in the hold

Avoids smoke in the cabin and batteries are less likely to fail when they're not being used.

Also, easier for the spooks to gain access to.

Not sure why it is safer for them to be in the hold

The hold isn't pressurised. If a small bomb goes off you don't depressurise the cabin?

Holds are pressurised, same as cabin. Also, if you ban carrying laptops, it makes it more difficult for one to be passed to a passenger after security, which is what was alleged to have occurred in the Somali airliner incident.

Hmm... Bang goes that theory.

Pets travel in the hold.

It could be a way of trying to undermine business travel on Middle East based carriers, which are currently doing better than major US carriers. Someone who wants to do work on a plane may chose not to fly via Dubai if there is a changeover and they wouldn't be able to use their laptop?

It doesn't matter what carrier you're flying if they've banned it on all flights from a destination.

Pets travel in the hold.

I can take Hammy the Hamster with me when I travel?

I take Lemmiwinks with me everywhere I go.

Saudi royals are gonna be pissed off. I assume it extends to private planes.

Will Laptops/IPads will be isolated from people at check-in and checked separately for anything nasty before chucking them into the hold ?

Devices measuring more than 16cm in length, 9.3cm in width, or 1.5cm depth will be banned from the cabin and need to be placed into hold luggage and checked-in before going through security.

this. Minimal security benefits, but it hurts Middle Eastern carriers like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways on US routes.

It would disproportionately hurt carriers whose major hub is in one of those countries. For example, if you wanted to fly from New York to Singapore, you have a variety of options, some of which have changeovers in Asia, some of which have changeovers in the Middle East. If you wanted to work on that flight, you'd avoid those which changeover is in the laptop banned countries.

No booze and no laptops on a 24 hour flight. Jesus Christ. Or Allah. Whoever.

better have that one Friends episode i've not seen on the chair TV or there'll be scenes.

Reports of a shooting outside Parliament.

waterloo is on fire

Car also ploughed through peds / others on Westminster Bridge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39355940

http://news.sky.com/story/lockdown-as-gunshots-heard-outside-parliament-10810680