Tell you what Darius, it's the grown-ups who should be DNA'd so they can be identified as 'Future Criminal Parents'. My wife works with 'difficult' kids and she reckons it's easy to see how they got that way and 99 times out of a hundred, it's because their parent's don't give a toss about them. And you're right, we've lost the plot on the whole civil liberties thing. If I go into town (and Bath is a relatively small one) and stroll around for an hour, by the time I get back, I'll probably be on upwards of 50 CCTV camera's. They're even rolling out cameras that allow the operators to yell at you if you're spotted dropping litter or something (not as I do). I think if I was younger, I'd be on the same boat out of here as Kapitan Phillips. Anyway, I hear there are a load of jobs going at the Ministry of Truth for loyal Proles like me,

so I think I'll stick around.