Britannia Uncorseted

Attempts to bring the legal system in line with the moral superiority of the master race have elicited the usual unpatriotic grumbles, though naturally not from Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The Ministry of Britishness proposes to remove criminal liability from those who break the law in a righteous cause, especially where those killed, injured or tortured are careless enough to have their origins among the lesser breeds. Although the right-wing self-publicist, intellectual firebucket and sometime minister without paperwork David Davis has made some discontented noises, the official heirs of Blair seem so far to be holding their peace; and this despite the possibility that the new license to kill might tarnish the UK's mild reproaches next time someone dies at the petroleum-perfumed hands of our head-chopping chums in the House of Saud.