Readers of the Guardian woke up last Tuesday (November 1, 2016) to find that the newspaper and website had been given over to promoting MI5. To be more precise: the paper was trumpeting a fearmongering ‚exclusive‘ with MI5 Director-General, Andrew Parker. It was billed as ‚the first interview of its kind‘ and was conducted by the paper‘s deputy editor, Paul Johnson, and the diplomatic editor, Ewen MacAskill.