Keith,
'Phone tapping has gone on for some time, my phone and many others'
Whilst both GCHQ and our American cousins at Menwith Hill have indeed been hovering up vast amounts of 'phone and internet traffic for some time, with greatly expanded capacity under what was known as the 'SIGMod initiative', using powerful main-frame computers and voice-recognition software, I somehow doubt whether they are interested in the warbling of our own Citizen Smith!
