Originally Posted by antichef

Ben,

Were you dressed in London Business suit, casual chinos and loafers, or were you were attired as when we last met? (you remember, when we used to have a lounge meet up thread ).

I suspect that they may have thought you were possibly more Israeli than British and taken a stance, rather than just looked at the passport. I think it is often referred to as "profiling". A bit like the security people also do at Tel Aviv airport - where on my last visit I got a long and leisurely examination and questioning about why I was in transit through to Amman.