"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Don't Torture Yourselves
You never had a problem with torture before. Nor with war of aggression. Nor with prolonged, even indefinite, detention, not merely without trial, but without charge. After all that, some of you came over all squeamish about capital punishment in the case of Saddam Hussein. But most of you didn't, and the rest of you didn't for very long. So do we believe you now? Take a wild guess.
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