“Unique In The World”

That was how William Hague on Newsnight described “the level of intelligence co-operation between Britain and the United States”. Well, that is certainly one way of putting it.

Britain does not in fact have any intelligence capability. We are merely information-gathers for the Americans, to whom we pass on absolutely everything while being pathetically grateful for the odd scrap thrown our way.

Yet, for the sake of this “co-operation”, it turns out today that our judges cannot even do anything about our own government’s complicity in the torture of our residents.