I picked up a copy of some discarded business newspaper on the train yesterday and amongst the usual incomprehensible stockmarket speak, was a story about Shell burying a load of documents in the desert. Does this stuff go on all the time, but only get reported in the business pages? Is the corporate world really like James Bond baddies with underground bases and dastardly schemes to conquer the world? Or what?

And while we’re at it, what’s up with burying a load of anthrax in a field in Maryland?

It’s a strange world down there.