The question is, why is anybody surprised by this supposed revelation? Did anyone think the US government wasn’t spying on its own citizens? Or that the UK government isn’t highly likely to be doing the same? These are the days of state-sanctioned terrorism. These are the days of big brother surveillance methods being used in everything from car satellite navigation systems to the electronic tagging of paedophiles to observing every citizen of these countries going about their own private and entirely legitimate business. These are the days of phoney wars, evangelical and other religiously extremist attempts to censor and reshape [...]