Unwarranted

"Long-awaited"? These Intelligence Bills are more frequent than some communities' bus services these days.

On one level, the question is not even whether the measures proposed are right or wrong, but merely why they were not in the last one, or in the one before that, or in the one before that, or in the one before that.

If the intelligence services have indeed prevented six terrorist attacks in the last year, without letting a single one through, then why do they need anything more than they already have?

They are already doing astonishingly, one might almost say "incredibly", well.

And why are they alone in the world in needing these new powers? There is no point in saying that the Americans, for example, are doing these things, anyway.

In that case, our lot would also be doing them, anyway, and would certainly not be drawing attention to the fact by seeking to have it written into the Statute Law.

Oh, and warrants are for judges. That is what judges are for. Politicians have their faults, but some things are proper to them. Judges have their faults, but some things are proper to them. This falls into the latter category.