Offensive, useless, pointless, unnecessary and apparently possibly illegal too.

The use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned.
Scanners already in place at Heathrow and Manchester Airports may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers' rights to privacy, the commission said.

So that was money well spent, wasn't it? On the other hand the EHCR is usually as much about divisiveness as equality, so it'd be nice if they disappeared and took the bloody scanners with them. Maybe this will tempt the government into changing the law so they can have their precious scanners after all.