None of the posts in my blog derive from leaked documents. Many people ask me where I get the material from, and nearly all of it is a combination of information in the public domain and an understanding of how people in power actually operate. So sometimes I can provide a different interpretation from the way in which an official document is published (for example the initial response from the Government to the Future Forum – where the panic fumes off the page), and most of the time there is so much going on in the public domain that it is unnecessary to delve any deeper.

But then something outrageous comes along and, provided I can be sure that there are hundreds of copies in existence so that no individual gets into trouble, I just can’t resist it