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• Mao : 47m-78m (communism) - These include the huge famine during the great leap forward.
• Genghis Khan: 50m-70m (despotism) - the mongol hoard's motivation is debated. By percentage of world population, this wins by far.
• Stalin: 8m-61m (communism) - Most recent estimates around 15m, very strong still.
• Hitler: 4m-17m (fascism) - Estimates vary on how many WW2 casualties are blamed on him.
• Leopold II: 5m-22m (imperialism) - In 2005, a statue of him was re-erected in Kinshasa, the culture minister of the DRC pointing out the positive aspects of his reign. source
• American Genocide: 2m-100m (Imperialism, Christianity) - This one is particularly difficult, as it was not committed by a single individual, and estimates of the pre-colombian population of America (the continent) variy widely. The genocide is also very debated, but I think we can at least agree on geno-manslaughter.

Religious wars? Up to 10 million. The inquisition? tens of thousands. Aztec human sacrifices? Up to 3 million.

Atheists, Christians and Muslims have nothing on social reformers and empire builders. Checkmate, economists

How do you define a country's cuisine? South & South East Asian cuisine was very different before European traders took chillies and tomatoes. Potato is common in Europe, but also comes from South America.

Curry made in Britain is different to what's known in India (see here). Wikipedia suggests curry was here before fish and chips.

"Sunday Roast", as cooked by most people, is crap. Not so much because of the meat, but because most people serve it with boiled vegetables. I put up with this for 18 years, as my dad insisted on cooking on Sundays, and that's all he would cook. Sometimes my mum would make leeks in cheese sauce as a side dish, which is a good improvement to an otherwise bland meal.

I think if I had to make something particularly British, it should be a meat or fish pie, maybe something like this chicken and leek pie (I like leeks). There's plenty of opportunity for flavour.

I don't know what "nasty pudding" is. "Hocky pucks" sound Canadian. I've not heard of "fruitcake cocktail" either.
Dundee cake is good -- although very heavy. If you have space, make it in autumn, leave it in the kitchen, and pour a spoonful of brandy over it every time you walk past. Serve at Christmas. If iced with marzipan and royal icing it's called a Christmas cake. Trifle is the other good opportunity to get all the children tipsy.

Snowden leaks 'worst ever loss to British intelligence'

Sir David, the former head of the UK's communications surveillance centre GCHQ, told the Times: "You have to distinguish between the original whistleblowing intent to get a debate going, which is a responsible thing to do, and the stealing of 58,000 top-secret British security documents and who knows how many American documents, which is seriously, seriously damaging.

"The assumption the experts are working on is that all that information or almost all of it will now be in the hands of Moscow and Beijing.

"It's the most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever, much worse than Burgess and Maclean."

Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess were among a group of British officials who met at Cambridge University and passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the 1950s, other notable members being Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt.

I assume you must suffer from some sort of debilitating condition.

Exactly. A Ferrari 458 will only burst into flames when it's warm and dry, because they used flammable adhesives.

This article has a concept drawing of the seats involved

I've seen the ads for genetic testing, and they're mostly useless. If all four of your grandparents died of Alzheimer's, chances are that's what you're going to die from. If nobody in you family ever had it, you won't get it. If there's some in your family (say, one or two grandparents) then this test might make sense. Either way, get plenty of sleep.

Dr Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer, a lecturer in sleep at Surrey University, said: "It's not surprising, our whole physiology is changing during sleep.

"The novelty is the role of the interstitial space, but I think it's an added piece of the puzzle not the whole mechanism.

"The significance is that, yet again, it shows sleep may contribute to the restoration of brain cell function and may have protective effects."

Many conditions which lead to the loss of brain cells such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease are characterised by the build-up of damaged proteins in the brain.

The researchers suggest that problems with the brain's cleaning mechanism may contribute to such diseases, but caution more research is needed.

NHS has clearly been under pressure for quite some time. Strange that it rarely comes up in discussion.

Complaints about doctors 'double in five years'

Crackdown on migrants rights to NHS and council homes
Patients facing eight-hour waits in ambulances outside A&E departments
Watchdog issues NHS with financial health warning
Why do the UK's cancer survival rates still lag behind the rest of Europe?
Thousands of NHS operations cancelled because of blunders as complaints about standard of treatment rise
The frightening truth: NHS-managers are incentivized to ignore problems
Hungry, thirsty, unwashed: NHS treatment of the elderly condemned
Dying for a drink: Over 12,000 killed by dehydration in hospitals every year

Labour must bear the blame for the shameful decline of the NHS

That might explain things in the US... but then what is going on in the UK where they have a quality single payer system and yet ambulances are spending obscene # of hours outside of hospitals waiting to deliver their sick patients: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22135109

If only there was the option to takeout private medical care in the uk and bypass those waiting lists.....

My 85 grandmother just spent 4 nights in hospital with a water infection. I understand that Americans find it shocking that she didn't spend a penny on this (not that she has many pennies to spend)

That might explain things in the US... but then what is going on in the UK where they have a quality single payer system and yet ambulances are spending obscene # of hours outside of hospitals waiting to deliver their sick patients: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22135109

The legal system does not hand out punishment on the basis of whether or not the defendant can pay for it

O, really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230

But I'm still not convinced we should let engineers start micromanaging bodily functions, when all they are worried about is the device and the energy consumption.

It can't be all bad, for every electric shock to make someone pee their pants, there's bound to be a different shock to get me to stand every now and then as I'm playing WoW in the basement. I don't want to end up like this guy or this guy, after all.

None of those are quite so odd as that of MI6 Agent Gareth Williams.

I looked up clotted cream biscuits -- they're not very common, they look like the kind of thing sold in an airport. Shortbread is much more common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortbread

The most common use for clotted cream is on a scone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone

(I'm not sure if the point was my country was healthier or unhealthier, tastier or not -- you decide!)

Making shortbread is one of my earliest memories from school, I must have been about 5. It can't be too difficult:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/shortbread_1290
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4622/classic-scones-with-jam-and-clotted-cream

Also more recently as part of the "Great Lives" series: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/greatlives_20130917-1700a.mp3/

All the UK's police forces keep armed units available and on patrol 24 hours a day[1]. The number of armed police in each force varies, with more rural counties having less and forces that cover a large city having more[2], but the idea that you could go on an almost unstoppable GTA-style rampage in the UK since the police are mostly unarmed is bogus.

Not to mention that if something more serious, like the Kenya shopping mall attack, happened here it's likely be turned over to the SAS, who have well proven they can deal with this kind of thing (see the Iranian embassy siege for e.g.).

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10260298
[2] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100305/wmstext/100305m0002.htm

It appears to be still available as a podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092j0x At the time I remember being struck by the possibly of her being influenced by Arkwright's 'programmable' spinning machines

Since 2000, we have seen serious major acts of terrorism in this country typically once or twice a year.â

Really? I don't recall one or two major acts of terrorism a year since 2000. In fact I only recall one (7/7), and maybe you could count the bungled attempt to bomb an airport but those guys were laughably dumb. So what are the other 20 odd major acts of terrorism that I somehow slept through?

( Note to moderators: The question was asked, I'm answering it. )

Here is a starter for you. I'm quite sure there are more out there since this was just a hasty search. When I started this post I was assuming that plots would count as "acts," but it looks like the number goes well over anyway between the various Islamists and the Real IRA. (As this was done in haste I may have posted something redundant, but it really doesn't alter the outcome much. A more careful search would no doubt turn up more.)

Bomb plot: Life sentence for Irfan Naseer, ringleader of Birmingham men planning wave of UK suicide attacks

London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists

Four men pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange and causing a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity.

Fertiliser bomb plot: The story

Five men have been convicted of plotting to build a bomb which police say could have killed hundreds of British people. The men were caught after police and MI5 launched a massive surveillance operation.

British terrorists conspired in bombs plot - security officials

Counter-terrorism officials said last night they believe British terrorists who are still at large were involved in the conspiracy to launch car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.
Details emerged as it became clear that five of the suspects under arrest are doctors working and training in the NHS, and one is a doctor working in Australia where he was arrested last night.

Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people

On honeymoon in the sunshine, Britons who forged a terror plot to plant peroxide and bleach bombs in Jewish areas

Shasta Khan and her husband also had beheading videos, bomb-making guides and bleach at their home
Police found the terror-related material after being called to a domestic dispute at their house
A satnav showed they had been on multiple trips to Jewish populated areas looking for targets

British soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after the killing showed a man with hands covered in blood, brandishing a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife. "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day," the black man in his 20s or 30s, wearing a wool jacket and jeans

>However, the police have found no guns or, in fact, any evidence of any crime. They would certainly be crowing about it if they had.

This is such a non-story the BBC aren't bothering to report it.

British police tend to say very little, to avoid being accused of prejudicing a future trial. The arrests were Sunday evening, and the suspects can be help up to 48 hours before being charged or released.* There isn't really much to add to the story until then; expect a further statement in a few hours. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24530867

*Although they could apply for a magistrate for an extension, in terrorism cases.

This is such a non-story the BBC aren't bothering to report it.

False.

Terror raid: Police continue to quiz London suspects
Terror raid: London suspects questioned

This is such a non-story the BBC aren't bothering to report it.

False.

Terror raid: Police continue to quiz London suspects
Terror raid: London suspects questioned

Since you keep making these claims, you must have some evidence. Can you present it? Or is this just a crank theory of yours?

Were the 7/7 London attacks "fake" too? Including the 52 dead bodies?

Are the convictions that the police are getting "fake" too?

London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists

Four men pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange and causing a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity.

Fertiliser bomb plot: The story

Five men have been convicted of plotting to build a bomb which police say could have killed hundreds of British people. The men were caught after police and MI5 launched a massive surveillance operation.

Since you're Canadian, perhaps you could comment on this plot. Was it "fake" too?

Canada jails Toronto truck bomb plotter Zakaria Amara

One of the key figures in a conspiracy to set off three truck bombs in Canada has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Zakaria Amara, 24, pleaded guilty in October to co-leading the Islamist militant group dubbed the Toronto 18. The group's targets included the city's stock exchange and a military base.

These sorts of attacks are consistent with the announced intention of terrorist groups around the world. I think you need to present some evidence rather than simply make proclamations.

Since you keep making these claims, you must have some evidence. Can you present it? Or is this just a crank theory of yours?

Were the 7/7 London attacks "fake" too? Including the 52 dead bodies?

Are the convictions that the police are getting "fake" too?

London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists

Four men pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange and causing a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity.

Fertiliser bomb plot: The story

Five men have been convicted of plotting to build a bomb which police say could have killed hundreds of British people. The men were caught after police and MI5 launched a massive surveillance operation.

Since you're Canadian, perhaps you could comment on this plot. Was it "fake" too?

Canada jails Toronto truck bomb plotter Zakaria Amara

One of the key figures in a conspiracy to set off three truck bombs in Canada has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Zakaria Amara, 24, pleaded guilty in October to co-leading the Islamist militant group dubbed the Toronto 18. The group's targets included the city's stock exchange and a military base.

These sorts of attacks are consistent with the announced intention of terrorist groups around the world. I think you need to present some evidence rather than simply make proclamations.

Since you keep making these claims, you must have some evidence. Can you present it? Or is this just a crank theory of yours?

Were the 7/7 London attacks "fake" too? Including the 52 dead bodies?

Are the convictions that the police are getting "fake" too?

London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists

Four men pleaded guilty to plotting a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange and causing a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity.

Fertiliser bomb plot: The story

Five men have been convicted of plotting to build a bomb which police say could have killed hundreds of British people. The men were caught after police and MI5 launched a massive surveillance operation.

Since you're Canadian, perhaps you could comment on this plot. Was it "fake" too?

Canada jails Toronto truck bomb plotter Zakaria Amara

One of the key figures in a conspiracy to set off three truck bombs in Canada has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Zakaria Amara, 24, pleaded guilty in October to co-leading the Islamist militant group dubbed the Toronto 18. The group's targets included the city's stock exchange and a military base.

These sorts of attacks are consistent with the announced intention of terrorist groups around the world. I think you need to present some evidence rather than simply make proclamations.

Not the Nazi's, or the Stasi or the KGB. But the Iranian[1] Syrian[2] and Israeli[3] ones
[1] http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/the_baby_and_the_baath_water
[3] ...

"Depression is a mental disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain"

No, that's an explanation made up by pharmaceutical companies to sell £tens of billions of ineffective drugs to the most vulnerable people in society.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8138893.stm

How did you get modded up?

Rape, incest, bestiality are some of the things being targeted. That isn't exactly just bare breasts. Although you raise an issue noted in this bit from the BBC story:

"We outlaw snuff films, child porn and, increasingly, revenge porn, because actual people are harmed during their production," wrote PJ Vogt on OnTheMedia.org.

And you completely twisted the quote out of context by deleteing the sentences before and after what you quoted.

However, others felt that Amazon's removal of some titles amounted to censorship.
"We outlaw snuff films, child porn and, increasingly, revenge porn, because actual people are harmed during their production," wrote PJ Vogt on OnTheMedia.org.
"Erotic fiction concerns fake characters who don't exist in real life."

Were I an English teacher or professor (which I'm not, thank God,) you would have just received an "F."

It is Amazon's business what they allow people to self publish. But, fiinally, a key and critical difference to your first sentence.

"Fictional stories of rape, incest, bestiality are some of the things being targeted."

FTFY. You're welcome.

Rape, incest, bestiality are some of the things being targeted. That isn't exactly just bare breasts. Although you raise an issue noted in this bit from the BBC story:

"We outlaw snuff films, child porn and, increasingly, revenge porn, because actual people are harmed during their production," wrote PJ Vogt on OnTheMedia.org.

What you are describing has all the markings of the cover story the CIA might develop for a mole.

Snowden might be the creation of the CIA whose objective might have been to destroy the NSA's credibility before that agency gained too much power and became a direct threat to CIA activities.

Snowden found it so easy to evade and escape that I kind of wonder whether he has had some help from somebody in Washington.

Oh, please. You're assuming FAR too much competence inside our "intelligence" agencies. Here is a wonderful article about the historic serial incompetence of Britain's intelligence agencies. I assure you, U.S. intelligence agencies aren't any better.

There's plenty of reason to suspect you are correct. This blog at the BBC gives a good idea of how the unintelligent intelligence really is. Mostly the media just hypes them up.

Do you ever sing happy birthday to your kids? In a McDonalds maybe? Well what you did was create a public performance of a copyrighted song.

Playing your personal radio at work, loud enough so customers waiting in the lounge is claimed to be a public performance and thus copyright violation. Granted, this is Scotlasnd, but like sludge in the pipe, craptastic laws tend to back up and spray across the pond like explosive diarrhea.

The BBC can be a bit hit and miss. It really depends who is writing the article.

Robert Peston can be a bit of a plonker and revert to his Tory-boy Telegraph journalistic roots sometimes and make a tit of himself, or just make a tit of himself in general, i.e. see this article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24427274

Originally it was titled something like "Treasury could clean up from help to buy", he obviously was trying to create an overly dramatic headline with an agenda implying the help to buy scheme was pure genius by the treasury, but eventually after successive edits he relented upon realising he'd got his math wrong which obliterated the entire premise of the original article.

Also Mark Mardell the US correspondent lets his biases shine through, and Rory Cellan-Jones has almost fanboy levels of bias to certain technology companies.

But others like Nick Robinson always seem pretty decent and level headed.

I agree The Guardian is biased but it's certainly not at Fox levels, I'd tend to rate media that broadcasts in the UK using the following examples:

Most extreme (where Fox News would go):
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mirror
Russia Today
The Sun

Sometimes extreme:
The Telegraph
The Times
Sky News

Reasonably objective:
The Independent
The Guardian
Channel 4 News
The BBC

Most objective:
Al Jazeera

The independent I would have put in the most objective category but since it's became influenced by the Russian oligarch that took it over it's gotten worse. The most extreme listings just aren't worth the time of day, they're so full of lies and propaganda that you just can't extract anything of value from them. The sometimes extreme category sometimes have valuable articles, but usually it's a bunch of biased tosh, and all the others are worth paying attention to. Even the most objective category has it's biases sometimes though, but I'd argue they're still markedly less numerous than those in the reasonably object category.

It was 2005 when it became clear to me that the terrorism legislation would be mis-used; specifically when the UK's Labour party used the Terrorism Act to detain an 82-year old pensioner for shouting "Nonsense" during a speech by the (then) Home Secretary.

n.b. the link is to the apology - the original story seems to have disappeared.

No chance of watching anything from the entirety of BBC history now without having to fork over for DVDs. THANKS. iPlayer is an archive, just like this is. Archives aren't covered. People still need to pay for archives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/.

Now, admittedly, it's hardly a complete archive and the selection is a bit crap, but you don't have to pay for it.

It really depends on your local power company, its solar laws lobbying skills, NET/FIT rates, federal solar panel import protections and state/city building/code regulations.
Some areas ensure you get real cash back for feed in back to the grid. Others do not offer much export cash to homes with solar.
City building/code regulations can also be costly in some areas.
http://freeingthegrid.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering#United_States
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-panel-next-granite-countertop-161321343.html
http://www.fool.com/how-to-invest/personal-finance/home/2013/09/15/net-metering-how-a-little-known-policy-can-shave-h.aspx
With energy prices going up, you get a FIT, if the cost of a solar install in your state is fair, your home has newer appliances... the pay back period is not so unaffordable over many years.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 60c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 15c back for every unit exported from tax payers and/or power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get 4c back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get a time limited credit back for every unit exported from the power company.
Power cost 30c per unit, you get taxed for having solar. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061
Mix in NET, tariffs with off-peak power rates, smart meters and it gets more interesting :)
The whole electrical load can be reduced with new appliances, efficient home design (heating~cooling, materials used), better orientation when building, roof slope, understanding tree shading.

The big problem with Saudis is that while they may have a stable government in the country, they're also one of the biggest funders of Salafi extremist Islamism worldwide, which does wonders to destabilize other countries, and in cases where they're already unstable, to introduce an overpowering extremist trend (as happened in Syria and Libya, and almost happened in Egypt). And this is not limited just to Middle East - Saudis are funding extremists all over the globe, from Indonesia to Russia to Europe. This actually has a very real long-term potential to destabilize Russia, for example - look at what is already happening there.

They had a better grasp on perspective than some Medieval and Byzantine artists thousands of years later.

...who had a better perspective than some artists today:
Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur

While I'm not saying SA isn't a misogynistic culture, you are not factually correct on some points. For example:

* Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive, on pain of severe punushment.

According the BBC women have been driving openly in protest for a few years now, and on the 26th of this month a mass protest is planned.

The BBC has done some excellent documentaries on SA. I don't know if you can watch them, but what it boils down to is that while there are many human rights abuses and things that seem extremely primitive to us the situation is also far more complicated than many people imagine. For example, the mass protest is being organized on Facebook, and women post videos of themselves driving on YouTube. A lot of people assume those sites are completely inaccessible in SA.

While I'm not saying SA isn't a misogynistic culture, you are not factually correct on some points. For example:

* Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive, on pain of severe punushment.

According the BBC women have been driving openly in protest for a few years now, and on the 26th of this month a mass protest is planned.

The BBC has done some excellent documentaries on SA. I don't know if you can watch them, but what it boils down to is that while there are many human rights abuses and things that seem extremely primitive to us the situation is also far more complicated than many people imagine. For example, the mass protest is being organized on Facebook, and women post videos of themselves driving on YouTube. A lot of people assume those sites are completely inaccessible in SA.

Would you want the police or security services to be able to listen in on the phone calls, or read the emails, of a gang that had kidnapped one of your loved ones and threatened to mail you various body parts each day until you paid the ranson?

Tortured Mexican kidnap victim says: 'I would sit there wondering how people could be that bad'

For a week he was a side-show for gunmen who beat him with planks and pistol handles and gave him electric shocks to intensify his screams when they put him on the phone to his poverty-stricken family, demanding money for his release. The rest of the time, he says, he was forced to watch his captors going about the more serious business of torturing information out of captured members of the Gulf cartel by cutting off different pieces of their bodies each day for about a week. Then they were killed, their mutilated bodies burnt to dust on the mountainside.

"They told me the same thing would happen to me, if the ransom didn't arrive," he says.

The police can invade pretty much any home that they need to, why don't they? If there are limitations on them invading homes, how can there not be for electronic surveillance? Their numbers are not unlimited.

You may disagree with him, but I think this interview with Sir David Omand, former GCHQ Director, is worth listening to.

I would not assume competency. Maybe its changed but historically MI5 has been anything but :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER

"For the first time in recorded history there existed an open-water path between the Atlantic and the Pacific." Are you 13 years behind, or 69 years behind the times? There are also reports of pre-western history passages from the orient.

Your first example took 9 weeks, the second more than 12. This year a freighter sailed from Vancouver via the NW passage to Finland in less than 5 weeks for a far longer route.

10 years and 2000 lashes for dancing naked on film...
8 years and 600 lashes for torturing and killing one's own daughter...

Barely relevant link.

According to a BBC article, the American Dream is upwards social mobility: that your children will be better educated and better off than you were. The point of the article was that downward social mobility is increasingly common in the US.

The BBC News website has a story on it seemingly confirming that some number of episodes have been bound and will be revealed at a press conference later this week.

It's always possible this is one part of the Beeb not being in sync with the other, but it looks like it's more than just idle rumors.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24448063

Do you mean the veterans who were admitted to the memorial 15 minutes after they got there? Wow, 15 minutes to find a couple politicians and get them down to the memorial to open it up for so they can appear to help there constituent even though they were the cause of the problem in the first place. Call me cynical but I smell some planning in this. Just because the Republican Party is not as easy a target as the POTUS does not mean they are not corrupt.

I don't know. Perhaps the part where you're posting, through a non-anonymous network, onto a public website, claiming this is happening without fear of reprisal?

By comparison: Iranian blogger's death in custody stirs up debate Shots fired at huge Iran protest.

Grow some perspective.

This makes fascinating reading.

He tells a bunch of stories about kooky paranoid MI5 spies and the general incompetence of the organization. Great stuff.

Re: By now that mindset is rock-solid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension shows the mindset of aspects of the EU intelligence community.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER is also insightful in recalling of the "Communist sympathies" years.
Yes now you have the computer power for the UK to finally do what it had to beg the NSA for years ago.
A generation of total digital information awareness, been offered back to tame political leaders if they are supportive of the intelligence community.

There's an app for that.