Know Your Place
Sunday, July 6
Emerges blinking into the rain
Hello again.It's been a while, but I am back; without fanfare but re-engaged nonetheless. I might be a bit slow getting back up to my previous blogging form. It's high summer, I have another blog to commandeer and, most interestingly for me, I am about to start seriously researching my long-planned novel. I've been meaning to do this for months. Well, it starts tomorrow.
Distracting me from this purpose have been various book-related events, of which there will be many more over the next six weeks (have a look at the updated list of my speaker engagements). Plus, on the back of the book, people keep asking me to write things for them. This is very flattering - although it has rather undermined my previous avowed intent to stop writing journalism. Oh well. A lot of what I've had to say has been on the subject of liberty versus the Machine, inspired of course by Mr Davis. Here's what I think of him, and here's what I think of the Machine.
Anyway, I must go and add three months worth of articles to this site. But I will be back soon, and I won't wait so long this time.
Posted by Paul at 4:08 PM 
1 Comments
Paul,
Welcome back hope you had a good holiday. Like you I find the profusion of camaras worrying but if you ask "the person on the street" they don't have a problem with them.
My concerns are tempered by the safe knowledge that "the machine" is far from being well oiled and efficient. Victims of relatively minor crimes have no chance of persuading the police or any other machine minder to find the criminal on a tape or disc. In truth most of the film taken by the camaras is never viewed.
