A bit of a slow-burn response, Jim, to your previous point about Lord Ahmed and the way that he had 'let Keith down'. There seems to be an odd non-sequitur in your thinking. Just because he is clearly wrong on this occasion in attempting, absurdly, to excuse his imprisonment for a very dangerous crime by pretending it was all the result of a conspiracy against him, it surely does not follow that his expression on a previous occasion of disapproval and embarrassment at the conduct of some of his co-nationals and co-religionists was either ill-judged or insincere. It is often the case [indeed, probably so with all of us] that one can be right on some occasions and wrong on others. Why even (cover your ears Mr Godwin!) Hitler was right about smoking: I think his formulation that "Cigarettes were the red man's revenge on the white man for gin" one of the most brilliant of aperçus; and my saying so doesn't make Auschwitz OK by any stretch of the imagination, does it?

So, Lord A could have been right about the predatory Pakistani gangs but wrong about the Jewish conspiracies to bring him down -- couldn't he now?

~M~