Hola, diarito

Estos días han sido muy movidos. Ya por la mañana empezaba a llegar el mediodía, y enseguida la tarde, y no te daba tiempo a nada que ya era de noche.
Yo, por mi parte, he intentado no romper demasiado la rutina de mis quehaceres y he comido todos los días para mantenerme con vida.

En otro orden de cosas, me duele ver que en Inglaterra ha habido algunos incidentes ocasionados por esa ley de los obreros que pretende impedir la caza de zorros con fines deportivos. No por la ley en si, pues bastaría con substituir los zorros por niños con problemas de aprendizaje, sino por la falta de previsión defensiva de los encargados de la seguridad. Justamente en estos tiempos de delincuencia musulmana, es casi un error dejar entrar a hombres (incluso rubios) en los parlamentos sin haber pasado un simple test de peligrosidad. Adjunto un artículo aparecido hoy mismo en "The Scotsman" que refleja esto que digo.

Security in both of our parliaments is suddenly top priority

HAMISH MACDONELL SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR

IF YOU do not have a pass, it is easier to get into the Palace of Westminster than the new Scottish Parliament. Or, rather, it used to be easier. This week’s events will almost certainly alter the arrangements that have been in place for years. The procedure always used to be that anybody could walk up to police officers at St Stephen’s Entrance at Westminster and ask to get in, claiming an appointment with anybody who worked there. No documentation or proof of identity was necessary, and nobody ever bothered to ring ahead to find out whether the visitor was telling the truth. Once through that doorway, all visitors had to do was pass through an X-ray security check and have their bags searched. Then it’s a short walk from the Central Lobby and a stone’s throw from the chambers of the Commons and the Lords. It should be impossible just to walk in like that at the new Scottish Parliament. Everyone in the building has to have either a proper pass or a visitor’s badge. Where it falls down is that it doesn’t have the same level of hi-tech security as Westminster. It is perfectly possible to enter the Scottish Parliament either by the staff door on the Canongate or through Queensberry House and get a visitor’s badge through a pass holder without having to go through any X-ray machines or bag searches. Both institutions are reviewing their entire security measures following serious lapses over the past week. For Holyrood, it started last Saturday when The Scotsman revealed that three journalists had gained access to the parliament building on several occasions without passes. For Westminster, a security crisis erupted on Wednesday when several hunt supporters broke into the Commons’ chamber. The problems for both institutions are similar in theory but very different in scale. A total of 1,100 people work in the new Scottish Parliament and a couple of hundred others, at most, can be expected to enter the building on any sitting day. There are a staggering 14,000 pass holders at Westminster and hundreds, if not thousands, of others will have legitimate reasons for getting access to the palace every day. What the parliamentary authorities in both institutions are trying to do is tighten security without restricting access to an impossible degree, and that is a very hard balance to strike. What is likely to happen at Westminster is that anybody who wants to get to the Central Lobby will have to prove that they have a legitimate right to do so. All visitors will probably have to be accompanied by a passholder, with strict access to the environs of the chamber. If that doesn’t work, the Central Lobby could be closed to all but accredited pass-holders. The difficulty for Holyrood is that building work is still going on. This means not only that there are dozens of people wandering in and out of the building, but that many of the gates and railings are open. The Scottish parliamentary authorities will be able to assess fully what needs to be done only after all the building and landscaping work has been completed. Public access is already much more limited in Holyrood, but it should be possible to close some entrances around the perimeter, making it harder for intruders to find an unguarded entrance.