A Hoody Less Huggable

Things look set to become more difficult even for those of our boys whose bravery Daveybloke does not intend rewarding with a redundancy notice. Some legalistic pedants at the high court, doubtless fatally influenced by the European Act of Human Rights or some such thing, have handed down a callously small-societal judgement to the effect that hooding prisoners for "transit and security purposes" is unlawful even when it's done by decent people. Their excuse was the risk posed to physical and mental health; evidently they took no thought for the risk to our boys who must now transport and secure facially rampant terror suspects.

Reporting on the matter, the Press Association makes a rather sneaky reference to "the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein", thus implying that the decent people's goal was régime change all along, rather than the actual and (when viewed in the appropriate frame of mind) very nearly legal goal of ridding the world of the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass ethereality. It is all quite shameful.