The boy Foreign Secretary and the liberal judges seem not to have got their story straight about the US government pressurising our courts not to reveal intelligence materials that allegedly derive from torture.

The reality is easy to imagine. Call from King Charles Street to Virginia: 'Langley, we have a problem' /'Yeh?'/'Some human rights lawyers and judges are poking into our intelligence agencies being complicit in torture, could you help us out here by saying you refuse to put your intelligence material in the public domain?' /'Why?' 'Because if you don't we'll deny you access to data on all those Anglo-Pakistanis who, as you know, ARE THE MAIN TERRORIST THREAT TO THE USA'. That's the reality I suspect Miliband doesn't want discussed in open court, not all this blather about the US pressuring the British.