England, a bizarre melange of anarchy and police state
While the ordinary English resident freely ignores the fact that his every move is being monitored by CCTV, so that crime remains unaffected by the government’s watchful eye, police are hard at work treating as hardcore criminals people who drop apple cores — an unsavory, untidy act, perhaps, but not one that would seem to require arrest, fingerprinting, and DNA gathering. England has become a very bizarre country.
