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More top secret documents have been left on trains and even more accusations of incompetence have been hurled at our secret service dudes. When will people learn to leave these documents alone?

Have people not seen spy movies? This is how spy dudes communicate with each other. They leave stuff on trains and on buses and in telephone boxes and exchange envelopes in markets as they casually peruse the antique stalls. It's the way it's always been.

If people would just mind their own damned business and leave these folders where they lie, there wouldn't be a problem. It's quite simple. If you see a man in a rain coat and a fedora leaving an envelope or a folder on a seat on a train just leave it there. Another man in a similar hat and rain coat will be along presently to pick it up.

It's OK for the Americans, they're all electronic now with their intrawebs and computrons and telephones. They have a bigger budget than us.

We still have to leave folders on trains. Perhaps once or twice these guys are leaving the folders on the wrong seats, but look, if someone sits next to you about 40 years old with a hat on and sunglasses and says the weather looks nice, but it's bad for the wheat and then leaves a brown envelope next to you, just politely whisper that you're not Russian and suggest he check the next compartment and we can avoid this media frenzy.

Let's at least bare in mind it might be some cunning ploy. It's happening too many times a week for it be just blind incompetence. Surely it's some genius strategy of misdirection to plant false information in the hands of Alan Qaeda, where ever he may be. We're in trouble if t'ain't.