Tim Worstall

Britain, already one of the most snooped-upon nations on Earth, is about to become a nation of snoopers.
A network of citizen crimewatchers will be given the chance of winning up to £1,000 by monitoring CCTV security cameras over the internet.
The cameras’ owners will pay a fee to have users watch the footage. The [...]

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But it leaves questions of belonging adrift. Does that matter? There’s a middle-class mindset that stoutly proclaims a cosmopolitanism that “we’re all citizens of the world”. We’ve all been dazzled by an era of cheap, easy travel and it’s made us greedy to see more and more places. We want novelty, not familiarity in a place; travel [...]

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