Monday, December 10, 2007

I don’t care if the answer is 42

Most of the comment I have seen or heard about the latest proposal for extending detention without trial has concentrated on Why 42?

Do people really just accept that it is a good idea to have MPs voting on individual cases? Or have I misunderstood something

I cannot think of anything worse. And how, if evidence cannot, for reasons of national security, be revealed in a court of law, can it be revealed to MPs? Or will they sit in camera?