"urgent questions about whether the adversarial knockabout and courtroom gamesmanship that characterise the criminal court system can cope with trials of this nature" amounts to: habeas corpus and jury trials are tired old pre-new-Labour pre-New American millennium relics.
"the anti-war camp claims that …" : this is reality-based ? This is not clearly and openly stating that this stuff is an attempt to justify the invasion and killing of thousands in an Arab country by reference to someone we read intended to smear poison onto doorhandles in North London ?
"security forces believe that …" ? Yeah, an’ I believe that I have been visited by aliens in flying saucers every other Tuesday evening at 10:27 pm. Disprove my belief (if you think it worth while).
"his recipes … for … nicotine": Gosh, a wicked man up there in the same league of filth-peddlers as Benson & Hedges – or maybe he was trying to give up the fags but couldn’t afford the patches ?
"[It] is hard now to form an authoritative view", says Phillips. Quite rightly, this stooge, this mere hack in the next sentence says "And this information vacuum lends itself to political manipulation." Oh, how right ! Phillips deconstructs herself as she writes. How post-modern !
"[T]he law has shown itself to be … inadequate to deal with the threat of terror" is a chilling ending sentence. Just stop and think what Phillips advocates here. This is ‘reality-based reporting’ for you, the reality of a world where ‘terror’ is really lived and experienced, Orwell-style.
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