"I will show you how we punish spies".
The major parties have "utterly rolled over and accepted what the security establishment is saying" despite worrying evidence that spies are expanding their power without the public knowing, Bennett said.
He dismissed suggestions that the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald would take revenge on the UK for the detention of his partner, David Miranda, by exposing more secrets about British spies.
It is the sort of conversation that activists must expect to have in a society such as ours, which spies so relentlessly on its own citizens.
A young British company called Darktrace, whose technology was spawned in the classrooms and bedrooms of Cambridge University, can now boast a covey of former spies among their executive ranks.
"Once you are using servers that are not compatible with the rest of world and maintained by federal agencies, you are offering an unidentified number of our homegrown spies a chance to spy on you," he said.
Attenborough says: "The sense of freedom of people miles away from microphones, spies and depression was really moving".
Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
Some would have you believe that Yanukovych was a democratic, pro-Russian president driven out by western spies – yet he held his palaces and hunting estate via British shell companies, and his son's assets were owned through the Netherlands and Switzerland.
My spies at Aussie Cafe tell me they are having a laugh and a chat with staff - and ignoring the pictures.
The photograph of Gary Oldman as Smiley on page 4 of the Review (The truth about spies, 17 September) looked so like Sir William Coldstream when I taught with him in his final years at the Slade school of fine art, UCL, 1974 to 1976.
