Clear and More or Less Potential Danger

Green parliamentarians and other threats to national security have begun a legal challenge over the British Government's policy of extrajudicial assassination. Caroline Lucas, Jenny Jones and the human rights charity Reprieve are plotting a judicial review over the lack of, if you please, a policy on murdering British citizens in countries with which Britain is not at war. Of course, the matter has already been amply clarified: until a proper armed conflict comes along, perhaps as a result of welfare reforms, the Government has reserved itself the right to kill British citizens whenever it judges them a potential, direct, likely or imminent threat; or, in Standard English, whenever it dashed well pleases.