I am a bit concerned about the French government who have passed some decision to ban the naqib.

People who cover their faces are significantly, in western culture, a suspicious lot. Cowboys intent on crime, highwaymen, recent IRA terrorists in public, stocking faced criminals all have an identity to hide as they carry out their often evil ways. Perhaps that explains the insecurity of the French which has made them go down that rue.

Clearly, Muslim women are the new baddies. They must have something to hide as Muslims are the perceived heart of all that is evil in the west. Who knows where the next one will be?

Dress codes are important to many sectors of western life. You must comply to belong, from school uniform to the law courts, from the civil service to McDonalds, there is an identifiable dress that holds them together and/or makes them identifiable as to their purpose, whether legal or illegal.

Our clothing badges us all. For corporate good or evil.

But the French have come down against a small minority of women, whose hidden face makes them, the French, uneasy. I can understand their feelings on the subject, but not against the same minority.

There are many people who dress in a certain way who make me uneasy, irrationally – yes, and I would like a ban on those public appearances of dress styles which I find ugly, unnecessary and inconsiderate; three things that I feel that the naqib is certainly not guilty.

Namely:

· Fat men over 40 who wear sleeveless vests, so that their flabby, unfirm, untanned flesh is exposed. They should only be allowed in shops in controlled hours. There presence puts me off shopping for anything edible, especially meat.

· Shaven headed men who are purely a remnant of an age when the shaven head was ‘fashionable’. Or who are facing baldness with artificial baldness on the scale of if you can’t beat it then join it. I know that some men hang on to the hair style of their youth. There are some 70 year old teddy boys out there, but old men with shaved heads look scary. My perception, I know, but enough for them to be banned. They are potentially violent – as in the Mitchell brothers.

· Anyone clearly unfit and overweight who wears sporty gear. I recognise that it is possible to turn out fully dressed for about £10, including shoes, but only in stuff from JJB sports. People should dress according to their true lifestyle. Fit clothes should only be sold to people who can run upstairs to the first floor of the shop. They create a false impression of the state of the nation and themselves. They are not to be trusted.

And those 'trousers' that end half way up the calf. Just bloody stupid in my view.

I know this small list hits the poor and tasteless section of the public and I hate myself for doing this. We perhaps all have lists of what people should and should wear. The French clearly do. Their view might be become ours. I hope not.

The road to liberty is not won with legislation. We have liberty, and the historians will say that it was hard won. I agree this sounds as so much of a platitude, but we are free to dress, as long as we dress, more or less how we like as a result. No Maoist general uniform here thank you, as long as you discount the Talibanesque 17th century of the Puritan Commonwealth. Something however dictates a dress code, however.You can see the effect of Hello magazine on the most ordinary masses of people. The baseball cap has become almost universal across all ages and sexes. I cannot fathom why. And I do really enjoy weraing hats as well. We are not a nation of pure individuals in dress at least.

But it is how that dictation occurs that is of concern. A legal enforcement is frightening if you are on the end of it. I would really hate to have to give up wearing a hat in public if wearing that hat was illegal.

So we should be aware though. If one large group can dictate the dress of another smaller group, or even everyone, then who is to know if your own minority yet happy way of life will not be threatened by another majority who want to determine your appearance? Treasure your flip flops.

However, the dress code police will never be created. Who will say if their uniforms are acceptable?