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Yet without the jet plane to carry passengers over vast distances at high speed, be they businessmen, holidaymakers, politicians or even whole armies, the world in which we now live would be a very different place.

Security forces have responded to the protesters in Iraq using water cannon, tear gas, live rounds and rubber bullets. Scores of protesters have been killed and thousands wounded.

We need to leave the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic, and go thousands of miles back to the dry heat of the Nile Valley in Egypt.