There Are No Cybermen

People to whom the world only made sense in terms of the Cold War, including veteran student Trots still thinking about the USSR and Chairman Mao, you need to grow up.

Commercial cybercrime is your own beloved globalisation in action. And some Russian or Chinese scheme to hack into British infrastructure and bring it to a standstill is the stuff of pure fantasy. Why on earth would they want to do that? Between them, they pretty much own Britain these days. Again, you beloved globalisation in action. I only wish that they would send us the good things about their culture instead of the bad ones. Like the Americans before them, in fact.

You could not con us into surrendering our ancient liberties when you had policemen prancing around airports in some sort of battle dress, or told us that there was a plot to blow up Manchester United, or pretended to have foiled a plot to release Ricin onto the streets of London. You could not con us with the shoe bomb, the ink cartridge bomb or the underpants bomb, none of which ever actually went off. You could not con us when you, namely the police and MI5, actively colluded in allowing the 7/7 bomb plot to proceed to its fatal conclusion. And you will not con us this way, either.