If Slavers Aren't Safe, Who's Next?

When a legal jury reaches a legal verdict with which Her Majesty's Government disagrees, then the law must of necessity be wrong. The acquittal of those who de-pedestalled the statue of a Bristol slave trader has brought forth the predictable squeals of moral outrage from the back-bench baboons, and also from the law-abiding Sebastian Fox. As the minister responsible for running a dual carriageway through Stonehenge, Michael Green is naturally much concerned with people who cause vandalism and destroy the public realm, and the Government is pushing a new law to bring "emotional or wider distress" within the remit of the courts. Evidently there are limits even for the rock-ribbed non-snowflakes with their unbowed knees.