Yes, I quite agree. I have a tremendous amount of respect for those in the security services, who have been given a rather difficult job to do, and who seem (f

Yes, I quite agree. I have a tremendous amount of respect for those in the security services, who have been given a rather difficult job to do, and who seem (from the vanishingly small amount that I know) to be approaching it in a professional and objective manner. I have no desire to be nasty, and if I have personally offended anybody by what I have written, I most profoundly apologize for the hurt. However. This is an important issue, and it deserves public attention and a detailed debate. I hope that some of my provocative wailing and doom-mongering has done what was intended: provoked some thought and consideration. This is, after all, politics, and, as I have mentioned before, we sometimes need to make a caricature out of our own positions in order to make a point. Omlettes and eggs and all that.