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We’re here to protect you, says the State. Mock us not. Because if you do, boy will we get you and get you good. Bradley Manning An ...

‘Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.’ Great words of Ben...

‘A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism.’  These are the opening words of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto of 1848. Like...

John Le Carré is the outstanding writer of spy novels of the Cold War, and one of his best came unbidden to my mind in the middle of the fe...

It’s wonderful when two items in the news reinforce the insights each provides. Synchronicity, one might call it, or does that imply that t...