DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: 1984 Comes to Britain. “This is what amazed me: the Derbyshire police have sent drones out, to catch citizens going for unauthorized walks” — and tweeting the results to shame local citizens. “When the current madness is behind us, we will need to reflect on how easily governments, via orders that may or may not have any legal basis, have done away with our basic liberties, and on how few have objected.”