Mobile phones on planes

The mobile phone is a curse and many a tube or train journey has been ruined by morons conducting loud conversations over their mobile phones. Now Ofcom have decided that we should be able to use our mobile phones on planes once they are above 3,000 metres (around 10,000 feet in real measurements), so not for take off and landing but for the rest of the journey. Aeroplanes are bad enough with the sound of drunken fools shouting competing with the sound of babies screaming and small children shrieking without adding people using mobile phones to the mix.

Clive James feels the same way as me, read his wittier remarks here.