Telescreen Upgrade

Not content with making Britain the most spied on country on Earth, the government wants to "improve" things:

The police and Home Office are to press for regulatory powers that will insist that every one of the 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain is upgraded so it can be deputised to gather police evidence and provide a vehicle for emerging technologies that will automatically identify people and detect if they are doing anything suspicious.

Doubleplus ungood.

Big Brother on the Buses

Believe it or not, but the following poster is meant to be reassuring.

Reassuring, but to whom is not clear.

Cheers

Labour party chairman Hazel Blears via a BBC headline:

Britons 'not ready to drink less'

I'm no fan of Britain's yob culture that thinks that the only way to have a good time is to drink until you throw up and pass out (and not necessarily in that order), but given that this story is about the failure of New Labour to impose a "European drinking culture" on the country with all the consideration that Dr. Pavlov gave to his dogs, I think I shall race my glass.

When Sanity Takes a Holiday

In the Blair New World, even a cricket ball in the hands of a 28-year old City accountant is regarded as a lethal weapon.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.