Frightened Little Men

The Glorious Successor's famous commitment to restore civil liberties has duly been put into practice, New New Labour style, with the criminalising of the demonstration which has been going on for fifty years outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. The Ministry for War and the Colonies cited "operational and security concerns", the presence of some women in tents being potentially a fatal obstruction to the first-strike capability of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.