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An attack on civil liberties that won’t make us safer

This government has got too used to bouncing Parliament and the country into accepting ever more stringent restrictions of civil liberties by uttering the talismanic words “security” and “terror”. It feels enabled to do so by opinion polls that appear to show that the public values its safety, loosely conceived, above almost all other considerations, including liberty, no doubt because most people believe it is someone else’s liberty rather than their own that is at risk.

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