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Dear Prime Minister,

Thank you for taking time out from saving our nation from the worst recession in living memory in order to complain about prank telephone calls.

Yours sincerely

Have just been sent this link by a friend:

http://www.pistonheads.com/speed/default.asp?storyId=18782

Look on the bright side, at least there won’t be so many terrorists, paedophiles or fly tippers clogging up the bus lanes.

And eco-warriors, titter ye not with vengeful glee, for it’ll be but a Pyrrhic victory. They’ll be doing the same to pedestrians next, including the ones that only eat vegetables. They’ve already got the face recognition software, and it can reportedly “see through” beards and cosmetic alterations.

They’re simply wrecking our society with this totally unnecessary surveillance porn and attendant authoritarian attitude. I’m losing track of the number of people of my generation who have registered an intent to emigrate. Intelligent people don’t want to tracked every inch of their journey through a public space, they don’t want flourescent jacketed “officers of the council” scratching and sniffing their rubbish bins each week, they don’t want pilotless police drones flying over their homes and observing them in their gardens and yards.

It’s not terrorists destroying our public spaces and society in general, it’s our own government and its authoritarian, technology intoxicated, control freak minions.

Quite honestly, I think our government is going collectively mad.

Council ban on atheist websites

EDIT: This intolerable nonsense has finally persuaded me to join the National Secular Society. I submitted the membership form this evening.

No, not MySQL’s recent announcement, but this story: “Pair guilty of harrassing dolphin” .

Can someone explain to me why “distressing” a dolphin by “disturbing its normal pattern of behaviour” is something that can get you arrested, but deliberately fishing a shark out of the ocean and clubbing it to death on the deck of a boat is acceptable?