Watching Over You

Watching Over You
Originally uploaded by d m.

I think the inclusion of a woman's eyes instead of a man's is designed to make us all feel safe and snug in a maternal-type way. I think it's one of the scariest posters I've seen for a while. Although advertising a non-event website doesn't seem like the best use of public money to prevent terrorism (or 'much, much more' - what does that mean?) Plus, I like the way that there is no doubt that parliament is doing the watching. Maybe we should give them some more powers to do this? Then we could all sleep safe at night...

The Cabinet Office says the diminutively-named Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill will "...allow the Government to deliver reform of outdated or over-complicated legislation more quickly". To me, that sounds like 'push things through Parliament quicker if we want to'. As with ID cards there is a campaign to bring the Bill's problems to the fore which will hopefully have some effect. Sadly, it just seems to be the direction things are going in general.