Through a glass, darkly

What has happened overnight? The government seems to have decided that the citizens of Great Britain should wake up on this sunny May morning to a smeary cavalcade of shit. John Reid, now with added inhumanity, is too idiotic to be true. Derogate from the ECHR? I don't think even the Daily Mail has ever gone that far. (Well ok, maybe they have) Add to this the fact that Goldsmith is considering ditching contempt laws and it's all a bit grim.

How could any government possibly be proud of all this rubbish? They really do seem to be just chasing the headlines. They make a huge mess of control orders, three people run off, and the response is to declare a national state of emergency and suspend the peoples' right to liberty. It does seem just a little bit disproportionate.