To me this article is “meta” and tells a very different story: “America is an authoritarian hellhole where trivial matters such as how you lock your phone can put you in real danger. Not from gangs, but from the government.”

I went to the US on holidays recently and several people sat me down before I left to give me a very serious talk warning me about the police being deadly dangerous to anyone that doesn’t behave “just right”. You know: show your hands, don’t reach for things unless prompted, that kind of thing that I just don’t have to worry about over here — where “here” is most of the rest of the Planet.

The last time I felt like this — that I had to worry about the police as a law abiding citizen — was in communist country behind the iron curtain.

You’ve all managed to turn the “land of the free” into a copy of the enemy you made fun of.

I guess Trump is right: the US and Russia should be friends. You’re more similar than different.