Bring these men to trial – or revoke their control orders
It's not only the law lords who are confused about the threat the controlees pose. What has the Home Office got to lose?
The conviction of three men for conspiring to murder using explosives on aircraft brings a set of competing nightmares into the debate about terrorism. The images of the death and destruction apparently planned by Abdulla Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain on transatlantic airliners are terrifying to watch and rewarding for the intelligence services, who describe their operation disrupting the plot as "their most significant investigation ever undertaken".
On the other hand, for 19 men also accused of involvement in terrorism, but who have not had the luxury of a trial at crown court, their severely restricted existence under a regime of control orders is, according to the House of Lords, also "the stuff of nightmares".
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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