Moral ignorance on a staggering scale

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David Davis MP appears to have been so disgusted by the notion of extending preventive jail from 28 to 42 days (an extra two weeks) that he resigns to fight a by-election over it.

He apparently did not consider that the law, or rather "law", that allows the hybridization of human and animal cells was not so serious. He made no such fuss then, when the immorality of Gordon Brown compassed most of those who heard of it with a shudder.

I hope this man is a posturing mountebank. Because if he is serious and means what he says, then his complete inability to distinguish moral issues is horrifying in a politician who claims to be Conservative. Not, of course, in the least surprising, but horrifying nevertheless.

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In this case the measure gives the Police the ability, with the authority of the Home Secretary, to hold someone suspected of terrorism, for up to 42 days without charge. The suspect will also have the right to appeal to a judge for a hearing after 28 days.

I think they are supposed to suspect you of having already committed a crime, rather than being permitted to hold you because they think you might.