In a lightbulb moment sat on the bog I recalled I had to sign the 'official secrets act' once or twice *
when I worked for civil service departments long time ago in one of my previous lives...

In this 21st century age of the internet and social media,
that seems such a quaint old non disclosure restraint to keep the truth from public scrutiny and debate...


[* clerical officer in a benefits office,
and wheelchair pusher and special toilet duties in an artificial limbs centre...

To think I am contravening state secrecy laws by disclosing I had to hold papier mache bottles for armless blokes to piss in...???]