Edward Horne's sculpture of filing cabinets, steel, office lights... and an urn was one of the one which drew the most attention of any of the sculptures. Unfortunately I missed it on my first trip since I didn't have time to cover most of Mark's Park, and this sculpture was buried way up the back of it.

Horne's statement is that "Bureaucracy is like a military tank. It won't stop for anything and has a disregard for humanitarian values. It leaves a path of paper wherever it goes."

Hmm. I can appreciate his dislike of bureaucracy, but there are a few factual errors in the analogy:
- If tanks stopped for nothing then XXX Corps would have been able to reach Arnhem quite easily during Operation Market Garden and the outcome of World War II would have been quite different. (In that the Western allies would have reached Berlin well before the Russians did.) I wouldn't personally want to go one to one against a tank, but the reality is that without proper support they're quite vulnerable. (Unlike bureaucracies, which tend to just grow another head when you lop one off.)
- I'm not entirely sure that war zones are reflective of humanitarian values to begin with, and pinning that on tank commanders might be a bit unfair. And finally
- I've never seen a tank leave a path of paper but some of those old German Tigers left a pretty nasty trail of leaking oil, I understand.