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Source: World Drug Report 2007

"We live in a surveillance society."

So begins the report commissioned by the British Government investigating Britain's slide into a big brother state. There is an interesting section in A Surveillance Society which tries to provide a glimpse of British society under the watchful eyes of the big brother. There are fourteen vignettes, and we will publish two each day for the next week.

Identity Control

Arriving back in Britain from Florida in 2016, the Jones family face a rather different scene than the family of 2006. It is hard to know the difference between the two countries by what they experience at the border. Both Britain and the USA’s immigration and border control services, along with those of all EU countries, and other G10 industrialised countries are outsourced to the same transnational private consortium, BorderGuard. Continued fears of illegal immigration and government rhetoric about the ‘War on Terror’ led these governments to commission and implement a ‘smart border’ scheme, driven by both open and hidden surveillance

Here a riddle:

A man was the father of three children. Half of them were girls. How many daughters did the man have?

Answers as comments please.

This rather unfortunate typo appeared in the UK newspaper Sunday Mail.

If it is any consolation for girl, the police are not after her. It's her boyfriend they are after, in connection with the murder of barman Thomas Cameron in Glasgow.