Musa Khan Jalalzai Crisis of Britain's Surveillance State

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Great Britain is in a great crisis, one that gets worse with every attempt to patch things up. The global spread of technology and international links enables a rapid rise in the traffic of dangerous ideas, dangerous materials and dangerous people. An international journalist ties together the common strands that create the fuse for unquenched violence in Great Britain, culminating in a many-faceted crisis for the British state. The overwhelming picture of intrusion into peopleA's personal lives has caused a breakdown in trust between the citizens and the state. Five Eyes, TEMPORA, PRISM, ECHELON and the politics of the Intelligence War have shaken the public perception that their governments respect civil rights and liberties. Meanwhile the British A"Welfare StateA" faces an evolving threat from many quarters. Corruption within the police department Increasing homelessnessAn overwhelmed NHS, where doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly patients via the deadly A"Liverpool Care PathwayA" Domestic radicalization, as British nationals go off to jihad, fighting alongside their Arab al Qaeda friends. What will they do when they come home?Ongoing violence in Northern Ireland as the political parties have never agreed on a power sharing formula since the Good-Friday Agreement. Illicit trade in nuclear materials, as technologies and capabilities proliferate. Musa Khan Jalalzai, a renowned international journalist, shows that Government's attempts to stop these holes and keep the ship of state moving are entirely inadequate to the scale and scope of challenges as we enter turbulent waters.