Incidentally the Government is now regulating the security industry and is starting with licensing door supervisiors in pubs. It goes on to wheel clampers etc. Much of this is good news I suppose but you will need a license to breath eventually.

Maybe David Blunckets new id card will be a chip embedded under the skin containing everything you are licensed to do. If you do something not authorised like playing an instrument in unlicensed premises the chip could send out an electronic signal changing your music to the home key of Northumberland Pipes F# and a bit, and notify the local authority at the same time.

Hey I think I have had a good idea. I'll get out my home electronics kit and start work, and submit a patent application at the same time!