We Don't Stick to Facts; Why Should Facts Stick to Us?

Britain's Head Boy is having a bit of a dither about the "right to be forgotten" on the internet. Since the principle has been backed by the European court, it is only natural that Daveybloke should wish to avoid coming out in its favour, at least pending some diminution of the threat from the Farage Falange and its fellow-travellers in his own back-bench rabble. Only the most uncharitable observer would imagine that Daveybloke's doubts arise from concerns about the Conservative Party's right to relegate future election pledges to electronic oblivion; not least because the judgement was concerned only with factual information and not with fantasy fiction. Among the hundreds of people applying to have information about themselves erased from Google's memory is a politician who does not wish their behaviour while in office to be a matter of public record; doubtless Britain's Head Boy, in making his decision on the matter, will be mainly concerned with such principled matters as whether the expenses claimant in question belongs to his own party or another.