How to defeat terrorists

Laugh at them when they screw up. The chap who thought it was a good idea to try and blow up Glasgow airport, and 'got set aboot' in consequence. The guy who managed to explode his inside leg but little else. (Certainly, it is a better weapon against terrorism than the interminable clamp-down on freedom. The most sensible political comment I heard all week was from Dara O'Briain on Mock the Week — you know it's a bad week when the satirists are the sanest commentators — who said, 'If we're having to get strip-searched by computers to fly, then I don't know about you, but I think the terrorists have already won.')

So on the basis that the way to defeat terrorists is to laugh at them, Chris Morris of Brass Eye fame has made his first satirical feature film, about a cell of rather incompetent would-be suicide bombers: Dad's Army meets Osama bin Laden. Here's a clip.

(Via Alex Massie.)