Straining Truss

In a letter to the highly free and independent Murdoch Times, the lord chancellor, Liz Truss, has defended the freedom of a free, cantankerous, Europhobic, Muslim-baiting, migrant-mugging, NHS-bashing Free Press to call whatever names and to hunt whatever witches it may find, in all good conscience, necessary. The lord chancellor, Liz Truss, has been at pains to correct any misapprehension that part of her function, if function is the word I want, might incorporate some sort of bias in favour of the judiciary against the screechings and foamings of rabid press barons. The lord chancellor, Liz Truss, does not believe that the impartiality of the judiciary is imperilled by headlines calling judges enemies of the people; it is, after all, a matter of entire months since our last political assassination. It remains as yet unclear how far the relaxed attitude of the lord chancellor, Liz Truss, is influenced by her colleague, Liz Truss, a Cabinet minister in the government against whose case the judges in question had ruled.