Take a minor example which happened to cross my path this week. I have just received from the police the form to renew my shotgun licence. The entire last page is devoted to “EQUALITY INFORMATION”. Off we go on disability, ethnicity, gender and age group. Naturally, I exercise my right not to answer this intrusive rubbish. I shall not tell them whether I am “Gypsy or Irish Traveller”, or am aged 18-20. I shan’t even tick the box in the gender question which says “Prefer not to say”. But I am conscious that I am somehow acting “inappropriately”. I start to wonder whether refusal will prejudice my chance of renewal. After five years of Conservative-dominated government, why on earth does this sort of thing clutter our lives? Yet it does and it will go on doing so, because that is the way modern international governance likes it, regardless of us voters.