"Justice has been perfected and the Witness is everywhere." That’s the pitch. And it works. We are all transparent to one another. There are no secrets, can be no secrets. Must be no secrets. So I will be read, as a page is read. If I have nothing to hide—if the System has made a mistake, which it almost never does—I have nothing to fear. That motto is written in Latin over the door, and above it is the odd little colophon of an axe wrapped in sticks that has been the symbol of magistrates since Imperial Rome at least. The modern phrase is attributed to William Hague, who was a great Conservative politician decades gone—a real champion of rights and right thinking—although I happen to know it was also a favoured maxim of Joseph Goebbels. Protection is the first duty of government. I hear they still drink a toast to him—Hague, that is, not Goebbels—in the Admin Tower, once a year at Christmas. The first watcher, the godfather of the Witness.