In the Picture

Another mere expert has been mouthing heresies against accepted religious doctrine. The culprit this time is Sir Richard Dearlove, who was in charge of MI6 when the Reverend Tony and his American chums were making Iraq safe for al-Qaida. Being naturally possessed of the kind of razor-sharp intellect for which British military intelligence is renowned, Dearlove has just noticed that political and media hysteria over the threat from Muslim terrorists can be a bit overheated at times. Dearlove called for a "more proportionate approach to terrorism", which presumably means he has somehow failed to register the vows from all sides of the British Neoliberal Party to renew Britain's stock of weapons of mass destruction.