Woke up this morning to the news that a 'terror plot' was foiled in London; loads of transatlantic flights out of there are cancelled and Heathrow is generally disrupted.

Twenty-one people were arrested, and the TV news keeps showing helicopter shots of some ordinary houses in the London suburbs.

A few news agencies had some vague remarks about the plot itself, that it may have involved liquid explosives in carry-on luggage. Most of the coverage so far is about what a good job the police and MI5 did in arresting the plotters, or what a nuisance it is to be stuck in a London airport.

Says the Guardian:

The events unfolded just hours after Mr Reid used a speech to a thinktank to accuse critics of the government's anti-terrorism measures of putting national security at risk through their failure to recognise the serious nature of the threat facing Britain.

Here's hoping the news keeps asking starts asking hard questions about what happened.

UPDATE: The New York Times has a few more details today.