Spooks

A warm welcome back to Spooks, the BBC's (presumably) licence-funded dose of ridiculous MI5 propaganda. This week, we see that organisation, which (with the Police top brass) has done more than any other to seek to engineer the abolition of civil liberties and democratic accountability in this country, valiantly foiling a coup attempt by, among other people, the right-wing Press, which, to give it its due, has in fact done a great deal to defend those liberties and that accountability by forcing the Tories, who had wanted to sign them away, to oppose attempts to do so.

Speaking of the Tories, David Cameron, while a Leadership candidate, told Woman's Hour that Spooks was the best thing on television. He subsequently took more than two thirds of over a quarter of a million votes cast. Yet there were, and are, only 250 active Conservative Associations, with half of those admitting publicly to having fewer than one hundred members each. But no one ever mentions this. Funny, that.

It's real, you know...