>The Big Brother element of 1984 is the one that stuck in public >consciousness even before the TV programme.
>What is, or should be, more relevant to a contemporary readership is that >the events of the book take place against the background of a continuing, >endless war between two ideological blocs to which there can be no >resolution. It is this which allows civil liberties to be eroded in the way >they are. >Now think about the 'War on Terror.' Think about subsequent erosion of >civil liberty across both the western and eastern world. >Spooky, eh? >Steve Once they've finished the ANPR network off on our roads they'll probably string a few along canals and make us have a standard number plate so the cameras can recognize it. Purely for detecting licence evasion of course, though no doubt keeping the record for a couple of years as the police do with our road journeys. Colin
