Feb. 4th, 2004

ramtops: (royston)
oh, this is good - Alice Miles' column in the Times today.

extract:

Hurrah for David Blunkett. He and he alone has appreciated the farthest-reaching implications of the highly successful Hutton report. The system which so smoothly convicted the entire BBC is to be applied to every criminal in the country. Did I say criminal? I meant, suspected criminal. Anyone who might one day be a criminal.Probably.

The Home Secretary wants to try suspected terrorists — that is, people who might, on the balance of probabilities, commit terrorist acts in future — in secret, prosecuted and defended by government-appointed lawyers presided over by a government-appointed judge, using evidence the defendants themselves would not be allowed to see.

Marvellous stuff. A Blunkett ban on justice.

go read the rest
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the American view of the Hutton's view of the BBC is here - I know it's Fox News, but it's breathtaking nonetheless. Be careful - Quicktiime with sound.

thanks to [livejournal.com profile] hunkymouse for the link

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