Point of principle

I CAN’T help feeling reassured when a shadowy foreigner with family connections to a discredited regime is arrested under suspicion of exporting terror.

Point of principle
Sat, 18 Sep, 2004 - 01:00

But the principle that one is innocent until proven guilty cannot be sidelined by political expediency. It is important that Mark Thatcher gets a fair trial.

And I hope that he has a better cell than the metal holes of Guantánamo.

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