Stansted airport is in trouble. First, its operators say, there was a small fire in one of the lounges. This was quickly dealt with in the early hours, but it produced a lot of smoke in the interim. And then, apparently because of a problem with signals on the rails, all trains to and from Stansted have been cancelled. This is a major problem; Stansted is a major airport.

There’s no reason, at this moment in time, to think any of this is out of the ordinary. There have been a fair number of mysterious fires in Britain lately – in warehouses and other places – and there have been plots, according to authorities across the continent, to start fires on planes and possibly to bring them down. But not every fire is suspicious. Similarly, across Europe in recent years, sabotage and cyber attack

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