Wonderful! Thanks for posting. The Morris article was rivetting and I was most interested in the police accent checks and the canal-boat chase.

Speaking of accents, I was once on vacation in Scotland, and was on the phone to a rental car agency. I would speak a sentence, and the agent would wait for a long time before replying. It turned out that he was trying to figure out whether my Wisconsin accent was British or not - they only rented to UK nationals. Finally he had to ask me.