This article misses the point that while the government are thankfully not introducing "100% airport style screening" they are still introducing sniffer dogs and X-ray machines in various main-line and underground stations, starting with Waterloo in London (which is already a heaving rugby scrum at rush hour).
See
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=193211&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/26/railtravel.terrorismandtravel?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Paranoia UK continues.

This is really sick!
Disappointed to see it on boingboing.

Danny Dorling and others published an interesting study in the 2000 Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal comparing Booth maps from 1896 with deprivation maps derived from the 1991 UK census. They found “there has been little change in the distribution of poverty in inner London between the 19th and 20th centuries” and go on to show how the map of death rates in the 1990s also looks nearly the same as the proverty map in either 1896 or 1991. They conclude rather soberingly “The key message of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that redistribution of wealth reduces inequalities in mortality is as relevant today as when it was written over 150 years ago; the fact that inequalities in health persist and match the 19th century pattern of inequalities in wealth so well suggests that that message has yet to be heeded.”

The full article is available on PubMed Central at www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=11124169