I wonder if anyone else saw ‘The Real Da Vinci Code’ last night on Channel 4? It examined all the central tenets of Dan Brown’s book and took them to task, and unsurprisingly only a few stood up to any kind scrutiny and even then it was a fifty fifty call. The rest were either middle age inventions or on the case of the Priory of Sion a recent embellishment by a couple of French hoaxers, oh and there’s no historical evidence for the Holy Grail either. However for me the biggest crime is not the historical baloney Dan Brown passes off as fact, which he does incidentally, it’s just not a particularly well written book. Maybe we should examine our religious and political institutions and little more closely. This leads neatly on to the new so called “Freedom of Information Act”? Which is of course nothing of the sort. Want to know how many schools in UK still have outside toilets? As the Independent On Sunday found you can’t. If this can’t be disclosed what chance do we have to finding out what evidence the government used to take us to war in Iraq, or more frightening how they are assessing future attempts as George Dubya describes, ‘Spreading Freedom’. It should be renamed the “Information They Want You To Know Act”. I have to mention the chap from Cycle Training UK who stopped this morning to help me with a puncture. Thanks fella.