That's The Keeper!

You know, there are a lot of people who have quite a, if I can put it this way, high-octane view of the behaviour of the UK Government. They see behind the slow but sure erosion of civil liberties by way of ID Cards, removal of trial by jury, removal of Parliamentary debate, the sale of peerages, the desire to tag all motor vehicles, the desire to identify troublemakers at the age of three, a single sinister agenda, rather than, say, the ridiculous fluorishes of a Government misled by a premier desperate to leave his mark in the history books at the cost of everything, including his own reputation.

The way I look at it, the system of Government that we have ultimately decides for itself the path it takes. It has little to do with who we vote for, and little to do with the intentions of those who are elected. It really comes down to the way in which the organisation itself feeds and thinks. Now I'm beginning to sound like one of the tin-foil hat brigade, and for that I am sorry - it's just the epiphenomenalist in me. Better not to think of this kind of consciousness, if consciousness it be, as some bureaucratic metabrain. Think of it instead as the old historical debate of individual versus movement - i.e. the holocaust being cause by Hitler vs the Holocaust being caused by the Nazis, or more correctly the exact timing of a particularly nasty belief in a sinister Jewish plot matched against economic desperation and a harsh shaming on the diplomatic stage. True, history does on occasion "rattle over the points" but the train generally moves in one particular direction, whether it derails or not. But I digress.

Take a look at the picture above, and, just for fun, find out what it is. I shan't say here, because that may ruin the surprise. Let's just say I'd have given my eye-teeth to be at the meeting.