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MI5’s new "openness"
Democracy is a distraction from the business of government. Arguably it disrupts administration, panders to interest groups, elevates those unfit for office – and yet it’s what we’ve got, to be abandoned only in extremis. So when Britain’s Interior Minister rejects calls for an investigatory public inquiry, on the grounds it would divert “energies and…
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Will security journalism show its teeth?
How hard will security correspondents push MI5 on the issues highlighted by the Fertiliser trial? The Sun puts the case for the prosecution. The Telegraph‘s Home Affairs editor, Philip Johnston (whose personal advocacy on behalf of the security services is a matter of record) has the case for the defence. So will this be a…