Arms Deals, British Jobs and Lives. Why Our Judges Are so Utterly Wrong

Daily MailApril 17, 2008

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EVEN before I became a minister, I had grown used to living in a world of changing and relative standards. As a young pilot with the RAF and BOAC, I flew through Africa, the Middle and Far East and on to Australia, and it didn't take me long to discover that the conventions of life become less and less familiar once one travels beyond the Mediterranean.

To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling's poem, Mandalay, 'somewheres East of Suez, where the best is like the worst / where there ain't no Ten Commandments', they play by different rules to the ones we stand by here.

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Arms Deals, British Jobs and Lives. Why Our Judges Are so Utterly Wrong

I thought of this again when the High Court last week wrongly denounced the Government for abandoning the bribery investigation into the massive British Aerospace arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

Now, I know this will sound shocking to the liberal Left, but sometimes the judiciary really should keep their noses out of matters of national importance.

Let's ...

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