The German government has recently obtained information that the United States has been monitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. It has been reported that she then called President Barack Obama to confirm or deny the news and that if it was true it was a 'grave breach of trust' between the allies. But should we be surprised that this has happened? After all countries spy on each other all the time don't they?
Also today why did the police in Ireland take a blonde roma child from her darker haired parents only to have to return her later when it DNA tests revealed that she was their child. Was it a knee jerk reaction borne out of years of distrust of the Roma or is it connected to the Madeleine McCain case?
- Brendan O'Neill
- Editor of Spiked
- Amanda Vanstone