Original title: “Flying: now with more nudity”

If you want to get on a plane in London, you have to let the government take nude video of you, your spouse and your children.

Flying is far less dangerous than driving. Flying in the nineties and noughties is less dangerous than flying in the seventies and eighties.

Then, of course, there’s the fact that nudie scanners don’t detect bomb parts, anyway.

I hope at least that TSA, flight attendants, pilots, and other people working in secure area of terminal are required to be nudie-scanned every time they come into their workplace. After all, it would be very easy to bring a bomb in as a quickie-mart clerk and hand it off to a passenger.

Of course, that’s disingenuous. I do hope that they’re required to be scanned, because rules should apply to everyone; that’s how we recognize the idiotic nature of rules like this one.

Let me repeat all of that; it’s important:

• nude video is taken of ALL travellers through Heathrow
• flying is much safer than driving
• flying is safer now than it was 20 years ago
• nudie scanners don’t work, anyway

I should point out that nudie scanners are also called millimeter scanners or terahertz scanners. I think nudie scanner more accurately conveys what they do, though.