• Seven minutes from Suss

Apparently wavey Davey Cameron was flouncing about with a "foot long form" that takes police "seven minutes" to complete in PMQs today, demanding that Mr Bean adopt their campaign to stop this bureaucratic nonsesne.

I rather hope that I am as unlikely as Davey or Gordon to be stopped and searched for whatever reason, but if I were, I would want a full justification for it, and there and then, in writing, and not on a tape that I would have to seek access to through some kind of data laws.

I am quite sure there is plenty of "bureaucratic nonsense" that the police have to carry out - like arresting people for possession of drugs say - that could be cleared away to better effect rather than a ticket that tells you, when you are wrongfully stopped and searched, why they suspected you, what for and what redress you can or cannot seek for the inconvenience.