Richard, yes, but I thought it had turned into enough of a rant already without going to town on the whole "government as a bunch of fascist lemons" argument. On the other hand it makes a good blog post title I guess :-) Honestly I am less worried about government's wishes anyway - they seem intent on making themselves entirely irrelevant so I think it best to let them get on with it.

Cyberdoyle - yes there were a couple of silver linings in there but as per your comment at the DBUC09 blog there's an awful lot of not so good stuff in there as well and I really ought to read it before ranting too much...