Marvellous opening quote from The Economist this week:

“WE TEND to meet any new situation in life by reorganising,” Petronius Arbiter, a 1st-century Roman satirist, is supposed to have remarked. “And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.”

…for an opening set of articles about the intelligence services in the UK and US, and the political pressures upon them to reform.

Somehow the quote just seems so very applicable generally.