Everyone’s a potential victim in today’s selfie-surveillance state

Did you see the Welsh Tory MP David Davies and a pro-Brexit protester arguing outside parliament, pointing cameras at one another? Davies was being interviewed for BBC Wales about why he had taken to wearing a body camera. Having been on the receiving end of abuse from both pro- and anti-Brexit protesters, he said he did it for his protection.

As chance would have it, one such protester — a hard-right social-media activist — was walking past, doing a live-stream to her followers. The protester who challenged Davies goes by the name Based Amy, or the Bacon Lady (don’t ask), and is part of a small association of hard-right agitators who have taken to haranguing people in Westminster. They first hit the headlines in January when one of their number, James Goddard, was arrested after he confronted anti-Brexit MP Anna Soubry on camera and allegedly called her a Nazi.

Based Amy spotted Davies and pointed her phone at him.