The rules are being relaxed, but they're still silly:

The anti-terror ban on carrying liquids onto flights is to be relaxed from next week - but will lead to more confusion and delays at airports, security experts have warned.

Jackie D (to whom thanks for the link) is also not happy.

Whenever I hear reports, such as this one from Jackie D, of how completely stupid airport security arrangements I feel a great long post coming along all about how this is the war on terrorism intruding on transport but then again that it is a completely defeatist attitude and how you can't win a war if you don't go on the offensive. And then I think "Where am I going to put it?" because it really shouldn't be here and realise that it just ain't going to get written. Well, not for a while anyway.