I’m pleased to report that Greater Manchester Police are far more sensible than Northumbria Police or the Florida police.

However, Thomas Cook are a miserable bunch of bastards. It’s fair enough for the airline to refuse to carry a bomb joker (although the stuff about “what message is this sending out to the…public who are afraid to fly?” is the world’s most specious nonsense: sane people worry about Arabs with actual bombs that they don’t tell security about, not Mancs with crap senses of humour).

It’s not entirely fair enough, however, for the airline to tell the police that they should have charged the man. Although everyone who’s had to deal with the public as part of their job would like the opportunity to throw difficult customers in jail, most people outside the den of lunacy that is the aviation industry recognise that this is, well, not on.

Thomas Cook is now officially on the Shot By Both Sides airline blacklist. Mind you, since it’s a poxy charter airline, it was there already…