CCTV record under surveillance

Politicians often find it difficult to practice what they preach - and even harder to explain their hypocrisy away afterwards.

That's why we’re sort of interested in how Swansea's Lib Dems are able equate the lofty sentiments expressed by some of their number about civil liberties with the fact that a local authority they control has by far the highest number of municipal CCTV cameras in Wales.

(And yet conviction rates based on video evidence submitted at city courts are reported to be substantially below the national average).