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is the question not how can we make a positive change to the conditions of life but how is it that we have not?

“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”- Edward Snowden

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

21 Nov 2016

“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”- Edward Snowden

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