So you're clearly fine with laws that uphold injustices. The thing about the law, Nigel, as any judge will tell you, is that the law is there for the people. All of us. The law is never infallible. The law that permitted hanging, drawing and quartering was a bad law. A law that permits hands to be chopped off for minor transgressions is a bad law. A law that allows you to be imprisoned for kissing your girlfriend in the street is a bad law. A law that protects the right of existence of the hated, celebratory image of a slave trader whose company was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and for the misery of hundreds of thousands of others is....a bad law? Was the law that protected Saddam's statue a bad law? (You haven't answered). So what should we do about bad laws that the establishment, which laws are not supposed to be exclusively for, refuses to change? What about when People Power toppled the vicious Marcos dictatorship? Those "people" probably broke dozens of laws when they did that. Did you write a huffy letter to the Telegraph to complain?

By the way, the law that insists that Floyd, along with everyone else in the US, was entitled to due process in the judicial system is a good law. It doesn't matter how bad you think the chap was. Unlike Georgiansilver, I happen to think that even the worst people are entitled to that process. Like most people I was glad to see the back of Bin Laden. But the manner of his dispatch made me feel uncomfortable.   Just a few musings, y'know...