Britain's response to the surveillance scandal should ring every alarm bell | Simon Jenkins

In America even the NSA admits reform is needed, but David Cameron expects Britain to accept GCHQ spying on us

What separates a necessary defender of the British state and a Stasi in the making? Seventy world human rights organisations today write to the British prime minister, deploring his response to recent revelations of what his spies have been up to. His response, in their view, has been "to condemn rather than to celebrate investigative journalism".

David Cameron's remarks have been extr...