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You won’t find many more deserving recipients of a cup of slime:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/06/mandelson-green-slime-protest

It’ll no doubt be the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit database for the seditious slime-chucker (probably for me too, for being aware of the existence of their website).

Has it always been media policy to blur out the registration numbers of ministerial cars, or did this begin after Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 came into force?

UPDATE: Craig Murray is more pithy.

Reading Glyn Moody’s blog earlier reminded me to flag an article I saw last week. Stella Rimmington (former Director General of MI5) on the political response to the threat of terrorism:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/18/stella-rimington-9-11-mi5

“[She criticises] politicians including Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, for trying to outbid each other in their opposition to terrorism and making national security a partisan issue.

It all began, she suggests, with September 11. “National security has become much more of a political issue than it ever was in my day,” she says. “Parties are tending to use it as a way of trying to get at the other side. You know, ‘We’re more tough on terrorism than you are.’ I think that’s a bad move, quite frankly.”