(* Juvenal, Satires. ‘But who will guard the guardians themselves?’. Alternative Georgian translation: ‘But what protection will the protection get?’

The government, military and right-wing groups have been taken aback by the generally negative reaction to Article 112 bis, recently enacted by parliament.

It can feel very uncomfortable to stand alone.

That’s why people are so eager to join things – as long as it doesn’t mean actually doing much.

 That’s your ignorance that will be on parade unless you can answer a respectable number of the following questions about 2011. But then, if you do know any answers, then you should seriously contemplate a change of lifestyle. Such as getting one.

In the days before the channel tunnel and Ryanair, most travel in and out of the United Kingdom was by ferry.  So fogs in the English Channel seriously disrupted communications between Britain and the rest of Europe.  One pea-souper gave rise to the probably apocryphal London headline: ‘Fog Isolates Continent’.  
 
Prime Minister Cameron has just done the same thing.