We carried on. Annie and Colson had meetings around the film tie-in for Witnessed , all this publicity doing the development process no harm whatsoever. There also was the first expansion pack to consider (new characters and new environments, new murders and plots). In his spare time, Colson was building my app, concentrating on the back end, which was evidently complex but happily the sort of thing which could be put together fast from existing code. The newspapers, of course, had picked up on my announcement, and opinion was split on the Left as to whether this was a grass-roots effort against casual racism or the beginnings of a Foucauldian nightmare of technocratic peer-to-peer surveillance. On the Right, there was a general sense of aggrieved dignity at the idea that Britain could possibly be systemically and institutionally racist, shading at the Kentish and Home Counties edges into a suspicion that my project somehow amounted to the de facto establishment of sharia law. Crypto-Islamism, apparently, was a concern to be taken seriously at the highest levels of government, because it was certainly taken seriously in Gravesend.