Dozens of journalists were ringing his number, but none could hear his denunciations. There's a fault at the exchange and all the businesses in your street have been cut off for the day,' she was told. That night Willmore watched All the President's Men and heard Deep Throat warn reporters investigating the Nixon White House to assume their phones were bugged. He wondered if there was a link between the Government's embarrassment and the silent lines. He pulled himself together with a start.
Conspiracy theories are silly.
No,' they all replied. As the Earth's friends were disconnected from the planet they are meant to serve, a Greenpeace direct action team was trundling north. Its mission was to launch dinghies into the Liverpool docks and occupy cranes booked to empty American cargo ships carrying genetically-modified soya and gluten. As they sat in a Cheshire service station, one activist wondered if the police and security services had diverted scarce surveillance resources from drug dealers and murderers to come to the aid of pariah multi-nationals. His scaremongering was quickly dismissed as nonsense.