Lovely seeing this discussion on airports triggered by samples from The Black Dog album.

I fell out of love with airports and airplanes about 10 years ago. Impossibly glamorous and exciting in my childhood. My childhood idea of international travel was the ferry from Dover to Calais, and that was exciting, so by the time I made it to an airport, I was in awe. But if you think that people drink heavily on short-haul flights, you should have seen what it was like on the eighties tax-free booze cruises.

I now see it all (by which I mean cheap travel) as being deeply problematic. I'm not saying I don't fly when I shouldn't, merely that I now feel guilty doing so. Add in security paranoia and they've definitely become dystopias. I'm going to go on the ferry next time I go to Ireland. Airports really are temples of mammon! Fire 'pon Babylon!

Lord Borthbury