Britain has frequently been regressive when it comes to freedoms. It's the classic nanny state and both the parties play into it. Labour want welfare to help pe

Britain has frequently been regressive when it comes to freedoms. It's the classic nanny state and both the parties play into it. Labour want welfare to help people into work. Conservatives want to ban everything nasty to make people nice. But while censorship in the UK is nothing new, I feel like we're entering grand new era where I can send you a few links to extremist material, an encrypted USB stick without keys and you disappear into a black hole. Forever. If that —or even the heightened fear of that— isn't terrorism, I don't know what is. I certainly feel more threatened by accidentally breaking a law than terrorists where I am.