Anyone seen "Brazil" lately?

I'm very worried by the news in The Guardian this morning that John Reid wants to split the Home Office into a Ministry for Justice and a Ministry for National Security. Obviously this does makes sense from their point of view, one of pure efficiency, if, as they do, you see terrorism as a major threat. Even though they're selling it with a "we'll ask the new ministry hard questions about civil liberties" spin I can't see a Ministry for National Security doing anything except enlarging itself exponentially to deal with an inexhaustible "threat". This can only mean more intrusion into the lives of normal people, more hysteria and more of our money spent on watching us. Blair wants to do this before he leaves, lets hope he goes soon.