Eighty or ninety Afghan nationals are being held without trial, without even being charged, at the British base at Camp Bastion. They wouldn't even allow the detainees to be represented by a lawyer until a British lawyer threatened to take the British Government to court.
To have any effect whatsoever on the prospects of returning this benighted country to the rule of law we must first show that we understand it ourselves.
This puts us down on the level of the Americans (Guantanamo) and the terrorists themselves.
And our trigger happy Foreign Secretary wants to have a pop at the Syrians.
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