Some pretty nifty footwork of your own around there, Don. Don't you know that aspects of the criminal law in Malaysia & Singapore -- with #s of annual executions* ( surpassed only by such as Saudi), & flogging for illegal immigrants as well as for muggers -- are a hissing & a byword to many? Are you happy about the way Pakistan & Bangladesh have developed judicially since we left? And do you think that they think they are our 'friends', Commonwealth or not?

~M~

*& not just for murder & rape &c, but for things like drug-running ~~ there's an English grandmother under sentence of death for it there right now. Not that I'm overwhelmed with sympathy; silly woman should have known the score & has only self to blame for her predicament; but you will, I know, take my point & not fly off at tangents, not being called Carroll!