“On Saturday, Turkish Airlines decided I wasn’t fit to fly,” writes Mark Mardell. The former BBC Newsnight political editor, who is living with Parkinson’s disease, says: “Rest assured I wasn’t drunk, violent or even late. No, my sin was having Parkinson’s.
“I was flying from Istanbul to Gatwick. Checked in, bag gone down the chute, but before I even got through security I’d been chucked off the flight.
