Overnight an oblique response had wafted across the Severn Estuary from Ye Olde Purton Farmhouse amidst the Wilds of Wiltshire overlooking the Somerset Levels. The morning was spent crafting my reaction. At midday the missive was fired at a satellite winging its way over the Azores in the hope that it would bounce off and end up in Kirkpatrick Sale’s residence at Cold Springs in New York’s Hudson Valley. It was a trifle dodgy as my web sources had warned me of a 100% probability of snow in Icy Springs and rain all next week.

My Wednesday weblog mentioned The War Against Chaos, a science fiction novel by Anita Mason published in 1988. This quote provides an insight into the political philosophy underpinning these weblogs. ‘...it was possible to attach labels to this evil and call it the Company or the Government, but that was misleading because another Company and another Government would be of the same nature. The evil was inherent in their very structure; anything which assumed the same structure would thereby take on the evil. And what was evil in the structure was that it was a structure for controlling...the Government’s supreme task was to preserve the State as a governable entity.’ Not what governments and companies do but what they are.

My worry is that the September 2006 Conference will end up as just a glorified book launch for Village Democracy as the present proposal is really a Fourth World Assembly under the radcon brand name. We should be more ambitious. Still all is not lost. I have two brain cells...and each had a thought.

Brain Cell One had the idea of building a radical agenda around the ideas in Village Democracy taking John Papworth’s new book as the departure point. The book's chapter headings are: 1. The Global Crisis: 2. War Democracy & Morality; 3. Mass Politics; 4. Which Path?; 5. Making Local Government Local; 6. Resolving the Problem of War; 7. Mass Communication; 8. The Democratic Deficit; 9. Survival.

We would set up a group within the conference forum structure to produce a New Testament to Papworth’s Old Testament. I’m not called shepherd for nothing. Heidi and Anton would get the Europeans involved and in this way foreign language editions would get published in 2007 with both the new and the old testaments.

John Papworth has often been likened to an Old Testament prophet. Here was his chance. His book tours could be smash hits if they came complete with Charles Dickens-style readings from his book and renditions of the works of Shakespeare and Tennyson. Heidi and I were treated to the Death of King Arthur and chunks of Macbeth and Julius Caesar during our Christmas visit to Purton.

Brain Cell Two thought that a closed forum...by invitation only...for left-wing dissident radicals working to the Kirkpatrick Sale agenda for America and Britain in a New Century might come up with something. In the conference 2006 context the group would produce a minority report...but this heresy would become the radical orthodoxy ten years hence. The forum's real task would be to deliver a think-tank that begins to address Cantonisation in the same way that Radcon II delivered the Middlebury Institute to focus on Secession.

The first task of the new institute would then be to negotiate with a co-sponsor like the Churchill Archives at Churchill College at Cambridge University or with Nottingham University at Ningbo for an academic conference on Cantonisation in September 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of Leopold Kohr’s 20th century classic The Breakdown of Nations.

It was a nice day and I should have taken myself out running. But I had allocated my next nice day to changing wheels on the Peugeot 106. When I took over the car there was no air in the spare wheel. Then I picked up a puncture coming down the track to the cottage on Boxing Day. With bank holidays in all directions and a three hundred mile round trip to Purton scheduled between Christmas and New Year this constituted a crisis...and one of my own making. I should have fixed the spare weeks before. No matter. Never mind (as the philosophers say). Shit happens (as the poets say).

The long and short of it was that I ended up changing wheels in Purton when one of the two repairs failed. But by the time Heidi ‘left village’ I had five good tyres...four of them almost new. The trouble was they were in the wrong places and a dose of wheel rotation was called for. The car park at Caffi Beca was the designated spot...not least because it guaranteed a coffee afterwards. At midday rotation occurred. Target state achieved.

I closed down AppleWorks & Safari at 2100 hours and switched over to my Apple Mac Mini’s DVD-Player. The Mail and the Express are vying for punters...luring their unsuspecting victims to their papers by bribing them with DVDs. It works. Carry Grant & Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday tonight...with pizza and red wine on the side. And a repeat performance tomorrow with Irene Dunne & Cary Grant in Penny Serenade.