Following a recent vote in the House of Commons, Britain is now, by some measures, a Police State. Readers: are you enjoying it so far?

More to follow on the Great Writ.

P.S. You may be interested to know that the US Supreme Court has recently ruled that inmates detained at Guantanamo Bay now have the right to pursue a habeus corpus challenge of their detention? So in certain fundamental ways, they have more rights than British citizens. But at least we don't have to wear orange jumpsuits.