The real threat to our way of life? Not terrorists or faraway dictators, but our own politicians and securocrats | Simon Jenkins

Convinced national security is for ever at risk, western governments mimic the fanaticism they claim to despise

What is Britain's national security? At a time when the country once again ponders war, the arguments used should be precise and the language clear. This is seldom the case. The division of the world into good guys and bad guys, democrats and dictators, terrorists and counter-terrorists, not only insults peaceful diplomacy and promotes war. It pollutes the domestic rule of law and ci...