Sorry I forgot to switch off the italics in my last post.

Billybob/Wendy, what you describe exactly illustrates one of the najor problems. There is no easy answer. To detain people without naming them would raise new problems, for such people would, in effect, have been "disappeared".

One thing I would like to see challenged (and I say this as a journo myself) is the untrammelled right of the British press to behave as a law unto itself. I would rather see the press put under the control of the government of the day - even Blair's, or Thatcher's - than see a handful of billionaires exercising their freedom to whip up emotions and print whatever trash they like. Our newspapers have had several chances since the minister with responsibility for press and broadcast matters (then David Mellor) said they were drinking at the last-chance saloon.