The news that the UK is going to be moving to double-decker burial sets Raedwald to thinking about the state of town planning in Blair’s Britain:

I’ve taken a look through Ruth Kelly’s fantasy planning for the Thames Gateway. Words aplenty, written in that prozac-cheerful official optimism that blabs of new communities, hundreds of thousands of people living in hutches filled with last year’s fashionable furniture. But nowhere, absolutely nowhere, in the whole Thames Gateway plan is there a mention of a single cemetery. Anywhere. Perhaps in Labour’s fantasy world people don’t die; or perhaps they have plans for compulsory cremation. One isn’t told.

“Prozac-cheerful official optimism”. Perfect, and, it all rather reminds me off the ongoing fiasco of the London Olympics (they can’t even get the logo right), but that’s a story for another time…