Of Britain's 4.2 million interconnected CCTV surveillance cameras, a whopping 32 are within 200 yards of George Orwell's home.

The CCTV system, by the way, is the wet dream of several big city American mayors, including Chicago's Richard Daly and New York's Michael Bloomberg.

Related article on the scary rise of the British Nanny State here.

Unfortunately, there isn't an April Fool's joke anywhere in this post.