Welcome to the UK. After the customers with ‘privilege’ tags attached to their baggage had collected theirs, I pulled my battered case off the carousel and then made my through the airport to the tube. Inside the case were the curious mixed contents of a performance artist on the move: clothing, books, stuffed fish, tea, plastic stool, tripod, dancing child’s toy, toothpaste. Checking in in Xiamen they went through the case in front of me and wore bemused smiles as they searched for the battery operated product they had detected on the X-ray.