Either there is no God or God absolutely hates mankind. (I favor the former view, and put Blair's rise to power and his damnable refusal to go away  down to our own gross stupidity) How do we know this?

  Viz: Reagan, Bush, Thatcher, and now Blair.  That's how we know.  QED.

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge