Burke's parlour

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I have recently seen the advertisement for volunteering with Metropolitan Police.
Apparently, it is not such a recent programme (since 2001), and adult individuals have a chance to 'gain valuable experiences' by volunteering in their neighbourhood or around places where they work. While the accent is definitely on softening the borders between the private and state matters by 'increasing contact between local communities and the police', I wonder whose privacy is invested here.

Speaking of privacy and loyalty to the community, not only Russia is sending spies to the UK, (as recent saturation of the media with the news about Anna Chapman's revocation of the citizenship says) but Europeans are threatening London's Square Mile. They are 'grabbing the land', and the sincere Prime Minister's confession that several generations in his family have been faithful to the City is to guarantee the importance of it for the new government. Still, this tightrope walk does not fully insure us whether the financial sector is a matter of national pride or the gathered experience of the family businesses.

Now, if half of the business is networking, and lip service, than these informal talks have also very important role in a fine participation and exchange of the information. Clubs with free distribution of cocaine help the businessmen to be attuned to this need of perpetual crossing the borders and shifting them back. But, again, who says when it is enough and who can participate? Stephen Perkins has been denounced, crossing the borders of the City forever, by backing out and trading 7m barrels of oil after a weekend of heavy drinking. Maybe he should start purging away the sins by volunteering with 'met'?

Ask the janitor.