Old Holborn has been out doing Government-approved exercise again. Once a year is surely enough for anyone. All are unarrested and unmolested despite wandering straight into the outside toilet of Beelzebub himself. Snowolf muses on why so many people think the OH Outing will get arrested. He's right. The 'Oh no, you can't do that' attitude is prevalent now. A lot of people really believe that any deviation from 'the Norm' is actually illegal. I'm still amazed how many people believe it's illegal to take a photo in the street. Nobody ever said it was. When Jacq the Ripper was two-home secretary, she stated that it wasn't. Yet that 'it's not the Norm so it must be illegal' is still prevalent.

It is not illegal to walk around in disguise. If it were, police vans would be rounding up burqa-clad women and masked UAF yobs and heavily made-up tarts all over the country. They'd have had a field day on Halloween. It's not illegal. Many things are not illegal. People seem to be adapting to a world in which everything is illegal unless specifically allowed. That's not  the way it works in the UK, it's the way it works in much of Europe... oh. I see.

The Daily Politics mentions that the Parliament Square webcam was off for operational reasons again. I didn't get a chance to look at the webcam site today, but then it doesn't matter because it was off. That webcam really should be replaced. It breaks down as soon as anything interesting happens.

Old Holborn has an account of the day, including what it's actually like inside Beelzebub's outdoor convenience. It is, as you'd expect, nothing like the real world at all.

Which does explain a lot.