The British bugging and phone tapping laws are so riddled with technical holes that they provide little guarantee that an individual's privacy will not be wrongfully invaded.
The greens thought they had won the intellectual war over the economics of road building after the government's technical committee SACTRA warned in the 1990s that there was no guarantee that road building would stimulate jobs.
It amounted to a guarantee that closer eurozone co-operation would not undermine the EU single market coupled with technical safeguards for the City of London.