A word in private
*** Disclaimer *** There’s a group on Facebook for residents of my local area to air their views. Obviously I don’t want to name names here without permission, and I won’t be quoting anybody directly for that reason. Having said that, all these comments appear on a public Facebook group which holds no stringent requirements for membership; it’s not exactly difficult to find out where I live either (not many local council seats will have just had a by-election due to a recent death of the sitting Councillor), and so you could probably locate these discussions for yourself with minimal effort. All this can be summed up thus: privacy sure is confusing these days. So, where does local politics fit in? Oh yeah, sorry: *** End disclaimer *** Privacy is one of this group’s prevailing themes - many of the posts are about recent robberies in the area, which are helpfully advisory/paranoia-inducingly ominous depending on one’s views. The local MP is active on the group, thus