“One of the main reasons for that, I think, is that while some countries are interested in rights, in Britain we are more focused on wrongs.”

John Lanchester: And yet nobody, at least in Britain, seems to care. In the UK there has been an extraordinary disconnect between the scale and seriousness of what Snowden has revealed, and the scale and seriousness of the response. One of the main reasons for that, I think, is that while some countries are interested … Continue reading “One of the main reasons for that, I think, is that while some countries are interested in rights, in Britain we are more focused on wrongs.”