I don't normally have much common ground with Perry de Havilland at Samizdata, but I had to chuckle over his nomination for 'Icons of England' . I had another go myself, with a slightly more oblique version, but I have no more expectation that it will appear.
The CCTV camera is a ubiquitous feature of the street scene in 21st century England. We have more public CCTV than any other country (including much bigger ones such as the US). Walk down the street in any English city or town and you are watched over by dozens of cameras, demonstrating in a very public way the changed nature of our society.
