> thanks for all the bits
Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?
He thinks that the UK is going to implode?
Probably correct even if it is mostly harmless.
Arguably, it's in the middle of doing so right now...
"GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?"
It's hard to say which it really is.
One time in London I lost my rag with a local colleague and snarled at him "is there nothing you can't make innuendo from?!?" And without missing a beat he simply leered back "in-YOUR-end-o"
Its Ian ingratiating himself to the geek readership so they think he's one of them and not, well, a fucking ex government spook ;)