On Îsle Saint-Louis, Paris, there’s a gallery. Pay them money and they will photograph your iris and turn it into art. Who knows, they might even post it to you if you give them your name and home address. Trendy art for the wall or a massive security risk primed and ready to devour your complete identity in the not too distant future? I didn’t go in.

I’m reading about French politics at the moment and oddly enough a quote from Ronald Reagan’s attack on socialism has popped up. “If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, regulate it. If it doesn’t move, subsidise it.”