The daft thing is Trena, if you take pictures with a point-and-shoot of someone stiffly standing in front of a famous landmark (prime potential terrorist target) you almost certainly won't be stopped. Take any picture of some obscure office block using a dSLR, you can probably expect to attract the attention of the (invariably jobs-worth) security guards, who will call the police. There is a lack of common sense and a surfeit of paranoia in the UK at the moment.
We got through the 1970s and 1980s threat from the IRA without these restrictions.
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