Nervous Nellie

When I read such advocates of the surveillance state as Albion Urdank condemning an opponent, David Bromwich, as being a ‘hand-wringing liberal’ on the grounds that ‘jihadists have wrought havoc on our lives’ and ‘remain a formidable threat to our way of life and need to be defeated’, I feel the need of such balancing contributions to the tone of the debate as ‘nervous Nellie’, ‘raving McCarthyite’ and ‘swivel-eyed paranoid’.

Mat Snow
London SW12