Peeping Tom Goes Underground

LAST year there were large posters appearing on the London Underground, warning passengers that "intrusive staring of a sexual nature" will not be tolerated.

It's hardly pleasant for young women to be glared at by dirty old men in oversized raincoats, I grant you, but the miserable bureaucrats of the British State have no right to impose restrictions on the voyeuristic tendencies of the human eye by telling people where they can and cannot look.

Whilst the likes of William Blake or Emanuel Swedenborg may well have been thrown into prison for observing the invisible angels that happened to appear between them and the leggy blonde sitting just across the aisle, I fear that our first unwitting martyr in the cause of free observation will be in possession of a white stick.