WRITTEN ON June 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?

Richard Dearlove on surveillance society, proportionality and the loss of liberties:

we have constructed a society which has great technical competence – and some of that competence isn’t particularly regulated. I think the important thing in the UK is that there should be very strict legislation and strict legislative oversight.

That’s the former head of MI6. Quoted in a newspaper owned by a former KGB agent (who prefers not to be referred to as a “former KGB agent”).

The time will come when it is recognised that the intellectual pygmies have had a point all along.