Fair Play and the Rule of Law

Since Britain is a free country unless one happens to be a traitor, a migrant, a shirker or a pornographer, the security services must naturally have sufficient liberty to protect that freedom and enforce all necessary hostile environments. After seven months of legal wrangling, doubtless using funds which taxpayers would otherwise merely have blown on beer and tattoos, the Government has now officially admitted that security personnel are permitted to engage in criminal activities: a fact which had previously been obvious only to those followers of current affairs who habitually neglect to close their eyes, block their ears and suspend their higher brain functions. It remains as yet unclear whether security personnel are customarily permitted the same degree of leeway as corporate suits, ministers of the Crown and editors of the scumbag press.