The Snowden scandal has made waves around the world, but hit both sides of the pond particularly hard following revelations of the scope and scale of NSA-GCHQ collaboration. The Observer’s Henry Porter tells us how a few ground- down computers in the Guardian’s basement have come to represent the moment the British press was really threatened and oppressed by the government.

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