It's really bizarre that this happened at the same time as the Ian Tomlinson affair AND the Hayley Adamson verdict. If I was a conspiratorial type I would believe that it was a deliberate way to bring forward the raids to change the front pages.
As much as I dislike Grayling, I did enjoy watching his barely-disguised disdain for Quick on Sky News this evening...
This seems to be bizarre week. The recent item about the Shroud of Turin was found by a researcher at (and this is the given name) the Vatican Secret Archives. I wonder where they hide the non-secret archives?
By employing some buffoon as their leader, who makes little or no effort to conceal top secret information, the North West CTU entered Jack Bauer
"I'm All Right Jack Bauer"?
the Vatican Secret Archives
Well, the police who guard the Whitehouse in Washington DC are the "United States Secret Service - Uniformed Division". This is just about my favourite name for an organisation ever.
Whilst I can see that a name like Criminal Investigation Division is about criminals, not run by them, I always get a chuckle out of one of our Australian Police groups, the Serious Fraud Squad! I haven't yet seen a Light-hearted Fraud Squad, or a Frivilous Brigade, but that name mandates their existence!
Nuke, I think that's why, when I look at governments around the world, my adjective of choice oscillates between 'Orwellian' and 'Pythonesque'.
Nuke Gray! wrote
This seems to be bizarre week. The recent item about the Shroud of Turin was found by a researcher at (and this is the given name) the Vatican Secret Archives. I wonder where they hide the non-secret archives?
Even better, the US has a organization called the Secret Service that not only does everyone know about, but it actually has a website!
But what better way to hide the real secret service than to set up a different organization and call it "the secret service", website and all.
After all, if you have a secret "secret service" and the name "secret service" slips out, the jig's up.
One dumb mistake and a senior police officer resigns. If Gordon Brown and other members of the government were held to the same standard, we would be governmentless. Ah, now that's a thought.