The “deep state” arguably tops the list of horrors which the new right has pledged to erase at a global level and yet “deep state” would seem to be what the snooping tasks in the recently leaked secret document of the SIDE intelligence agency are all about. To make matters worse, this controversial vigilance has emerged as an issue in a week in which the institution that should be sitting in judgement over society has plunged into a new low of disrepute with the scandal of a histrionic judge derailing the high-profile Maradona death trial by seeking to convert it into a reality show.

The pushback against this Orwellian monitoring often takes the form of spluttering facile indignation or declamat

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