007 is back and so – with spytastic synchronicity between cinema and state – is a GCHQ publicity drive. Snowden Asfaka and the fourth nipple will possess to waitIs there a tear in the spy fiction continuum? On Monday,the fresh James Bond movie Spectre premiered to the sort of five-star reviews normally reserved for subtitled documentaries about extraordinary rendition. On Wednesday the Times was given unprecedented access to GCHQ, which it ran, or tie-in style,beneath the splash headline For your eyes only”. And in a further coup for state-of-the-art news planning technology, next week sees the publication of the draft investigatory powers bill, and with senior police officers demanding the fair to view the web-browsing history of every internet user in the country.
I don’t know who’s running this mutually masturbatorial PR campaign – my guess is a slightly disappointing nuclear publicist in the mould of Jonathan Pryce’s media baron in Tomorrow Never Dies. But I will of course withdraw that comment if they can produce a fourth nipple or a properly shaggable concubine with a sledgehammer single entendre name. Something like Snowden Asfaka.
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Source: theguardian.com