Three cheers for the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the splendidly named Lord Judge. If there was no danger real enough or present enough to dispense with trial by jury in the case of, say, the Krays, then why is there any such now? There is not. Lord Judge has not quite said that. But he may as well have done.
It is the erosion of trial by jury that is the real and present danger. It must be halted, and it must be reversed. Along with the erosion of the right to silence, and along with the provision for convictions by majority verdict, i.e., where there is reasonable doubt.
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