So, a little while back the British government finally admitted that it had allowed the CIA to use a British base as a refueling stop during “extraordinary rendition” flights. Now we find out that this appears to be what politicians call “being economical with the truth”, and in fact we’d been keeping people locked up on behalf of the Americans. Thankfully those people who had come forward have attested that, “They had been treated well in comparison with the regime some endured at places such as Guantánamo Bay”, but now I find myself wondering just how much else the government knew about but has not yet admitted. I’d like to remind Mr. Straw that torture is still a crime in this country. And I note also that there don’t appear to be any convenient sex-and-murder trials liable to distract the media in the coming weeks.