NATIONAL EXTRA
Why nobody should be surprised by the Tory threat to press freedom
THE battle between surveillance and civil liberties is as old the hills, yet every so often the invisible hand of the civil service comes along to rewrite the rule book for the next generation. So, anyone with even the slightest passing knowledge of the UK’s history regarding its powers of secrecy and surveillance, will not be remotely surprised at the contents of a recent consultation document published on reforming the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1989.
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