Another dose of Home Office madness - Save Our Swords

[amberb_uk]

Many Flisters will remember that earlier this year I posted links to the petition on the 10 Downing Street website and links to the Home Office consultation on changing the Offensive Weapons Act to include 'imitation katanas/Samurai swords

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[amberb_uk]

Such is the way with politicians, surely - at least for about 200 years or so since the rise of the popular press (and with it the populist politician - eg. Pitt is the first notable example I can think of)! It's not so much the press is to blame, but how politicians handle (or don't) public visibility and end up trying in increasingly dumb ways to grab attention