The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country, the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country, the Financial Times is read by people who own the country, the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sun readers don't care who runs the country so long as she has big tits.

@WizardOfOz "Sun readers don't care who runs the country so long as she has big tits."
ha!

Orwell was prophetic.

Stasi 2.0 ;-)

Well, of course! How else could they deploy SCORPION STARE so effectively?

It may be that 20% of the world's CCTV is in Britain. But the world's biggest CCTV is in China.

@Tjalve I see what you did there.

If you can trust the Daily Mail, then this is true ;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-444819/UK-1-worlds-population-20-CCTV-cameras.html

@Karen And qoura, wikipedia, the Telegraph, The Express, Vintech, Wired, etc.

Just the first page of a google search.

@Tyrson Quora is a question-and-answer site though

@NorwaySwedenDenmark Then go with all the others I guess.

@Karen I wouldn't go trusting Daily Mail on anything. Unless it's stolen (it usually is) it's probably false, or at least not actually fact checked. They went and stole a "news" article from Cracked.com a couple of years back, and said it wasn't even plagiarism even though they just edited some stuff out while using the rest of the article word by word.

Cracked.com is a humor website that does cite their sources when they are doing a "funny facts" kind of articles, in case someone didn't know.

@Barracuda Yeah, that reflects really quite poorly on the Daily Mail.
Plagiarism is bad to begin with, but to steal from Cracked, of all places. They're funny, but their fact-checking is atrocious.

@Barracuda That is the Daily Mail's business model. https://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-daily-mail-online-1689453286

@Karen it is also why I get nervous walking around in foreign countries.

@Karen It's not true. The claim comes from a very flawed 'study' done years ago that checked a couple of high value streets in London and then extrapolated that to cover the entire country, and even then the vast majority of cameras were small shops with a camera linked to nothing but an old VHS machine. That 'report' has then been repeated and quoted so many times by other sources, often without attribution, that it is easy to find dozens of articles that back up this claim without realising that they are all just repeating the original flawed study. https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/how-many-cctv-cameras I live in the UK but I've been to the US, Canada, France, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland in the last few years and seen just as many cameras in those places.

Dammit Britain, 1984 was a warning, not a guide!

I love this place :-]

They've just used it to catch the Brighton Cat Killer, though, so it's not all bad

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