Tell me, is the government allowed to look at your library records

I don't think so. Not yet, anyway.

I confess, when I heard this on the news this week, the Patriot Act immediately came to mind. But as the woman in the Guardian article rightly points out, when we've finished instilling the principles of mutual respect and understanding, the criminality of violence, stamped out knife crime and generally made the world a better, safer place - we can teach everyone to spell as well.