Don't Be Spooked

With its popular presentation of Russia as a - indeed, the - threat to Britain, complete with a network of sleeper agents motivated by some undefined "ideology" (presumably the Communism against the return of which the present Russian Government is in fact a significant bulwark) and prepared to set off a "portable nuclear bomb in a briefcase" in London, Spooks had already made itself a public menace.

But now, we have also been treated to "a genetic weapon" at once designed to deter, and attemptedly stolen by, the Chinese (although "the Russians got wind of it" before that). Hilariously, this was aired on the very night when Cameron and a vast entourage have gone to talk to China. But the softening up of the public for both new Cold Wars continues apace. Don't fall for it.