Mastermind and the road to Damascus

[John Wilson]

Apologies for the truncated message - The Goole mail outage seems to
have cause a problem..

I intended to point to an interview with Peter Smyth, Chairman of the
Metropolitan Police Federation who says that the Police did not ask
for this change, have received no training and don't like it because
they see it bringing them into conflict with the public and with
professional photographers (MP3 of the interview at
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/21/britains-nophotograp.html)

The met have an ongoing problem with their relationship with
photographers boy amateur and professional, I'm rather pleased and
surprised that they have reacted in this way - don't suppose it will
last.

John Wilson