So with a new Doctor in place and everyone bemoaning his age / looks / Tennantesque profile it seems to have escaped people that the UK government seems to be now gathering ideas for policy from TV.

Over the break the BBC broke a story on speed limiting cars.  Not that big a deal surely, after all “speed kills” right?  So the story goes that central government wants to help local authorities mark up roads on their digital maps with speed limits, these will be fed into a central system for holding all UK speed restrictions.  Then (and this is the clever bit) a GPS enabled device in the car will cut power / apply the brakes should the car detect it is travelling at more than the prescribed speed limit.

Okay now I have a bunch of problems with this not least of which is a cynical view i) that the system will be outsourced to a private company which will cost billions, be late, not work blah blah… and ii) that the lovely Jacqui Smith will try  to hijack this as part of her neverending march towards monitoring our everymove.

BUT and more to the point did no one else out there spot the alarming similarity between this idea and episode 4 of the 2008 series of Dr Who – The Sontaran Strategem.  Basically a whizkid comes up with a centrally controlled control box for vehicles (ATMOS) which turns out to be a trojan horse for a world domination plan.

Now I’m not likening Jacqui or anyother member of the UK government to a Sontaran (well not in ambition at least) but just no.  It ain’t going on my car!