BIG BROTHER coming to the UK:

The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.

Meanwhile, in Europe we'll keep shouting our lungs off at the Patriot Act, FISA and the wiretapping by the NSA. Those Americans...