So The Sunday Times this past weekend reported the Tory lead over Labour now down to just two points? I am unsurprised. In households across the land, among those who intend to vote there has been much deliberation and anguish over which of the two evils—New Labour and Conservative—must win in an outdated and undemocratic first-past-the-post system come the General Election. We all know one of them is likely to be the winner, whether it has a workable majority or not—and if not, will mean a hung Parliament and at least temporary chaos and economic calamity.

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Imagine making a complaint about your boss to a national anti-bullying helpline run by a charity in supposedly absolute confidentiality. The helpline then tells the world that four people in your office have made complaint against your boss, and downloaded information at work from the charity’s website. How would you feel? A little scared? You’d probably think, am I safe here? The boss is going to know I’m one of them, isn’t he?

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