Virtual Gurgles

As one would expect of anything involving concrete plans, the Conservatives' manifesto pledge to provide modern broadband to every home is scheduled to be broken. In compensation, Her Majesty's Government has set aside a bit of pocket money for British boffins to inveigle broadband cables into water pipes. Since British water pipes are barely capable of carrying water, it is only natural that Her Majesty's Government should wish to increase the load, especially now that the flow of British invention has been unclogged with the kicking-out of all those Polish plumbers. Doubtless someone of the calibre of Chris Graybeing or Dido Harding will be appointed to headless-up the project and ensure that the right sort of people benefit from it, while hard-working families in remote towns and villages hatch their legitimate and understandable concerns about being spied on through the plughole.