Good Cop, Bad Cop

In another fierce and deeply courageous attack on police-state tactics, one of the Vicar of Downing Street's most senior chums has poured scorn on the infallibility of the best police force in the world, implied that police investigators have some obligation to inform suspects in advance how long their work will take, and called the affair "a blight on all politics" - the sort of corrosive, insidious blight beside which the mere offering for sale of chunks of British democracy pales into insignificance. It appears that, under certain circumstances, the rights of suspects count for something after all.

In contrast, the Vicar of Downing Street himself has urged patience and forbearance, noting that a historic fourth election victory "will not be decided by current events, but it will be about whether we have the dynamism, the energy, the vision and above all clear, well thought out policies for the future of our country" - quite unlike the previous three historic election victories, which were decided by the fact that the main opposition party was in an even more laughable state of Ruritanian disarray than the Vicar's own. If there is one thing British democracy's good for, it is forging ahead with privatisations and drawing lines under debates; hence the historic fourth election victory "will be about changes that endure, not controversies that pass".