The silence of the blogs

Just to let readers know that I'm going off for a week's holiday in the morning, so will not be posting until next Tuesday evening or Wednesday.

If any readers do have any issues they want to discuss, then feel free to use this post as an open thread.

Also, a story I would write about more fully but for time constraints: the recruitment of sixteen year-olds (!) as community support officers by Thames Valley Police. Idiotic, if you ask me. I'm damned if I'm being ordered round by some schoolboy!