Later in the week I spent a fascinating hour in the company of Matthew Applegate, better known as Pixelh8, as he explored the realm of chip tunes - music made from old computers - in a talk at Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge, part of their celebration of the work of John Cage.

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The legal profession and its liberal supporters will accuse him of playing to the tabloid gallery, while many of those with whom he would once have struck a chord will dismiss it as just more talk from a prime minister whose time is running out.

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