Chris Bertram (Philosophy, Bristol) offers a useful reminder here. The intrusiveness of cameras into all public (and some private) spaces here is really very weird. The only mildly redeeming aspects of the situation are that (1) the judiciary here is quite independent and not bashful about stepping in to protect civil liberties, and (2) there is real political opposition, even within the Labor Party, as we saw in the case of the proposal to detain suspects without charges for 90 days.
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