The Road to Southend Pier

“My book choice this week is The Road to Southend Pier – One man’s struggle against the surveillance society by Ross Clark (£6.49). A chance encounter with a talking lamp-post got Ross Clark thinking: could he get from London to Southend without Big Brother knowing where he had gone? In this entertaining account of his attempt to dodge Britainâ??s 4.2 million CCTV cameras and other forms of surveillance, Ross Clark lays bare the astonishing amount of data which is kept on us by the state.”