The UK government is holding to the line that military action against Iraq needs no further UN mandate. This flies in the face of not only public opinion, but also the government's own legal advisers.

Incidentally the UK government's legal advisers have said that if the US handed over the Brits among those folk they've banged up in Cuba, they would have to be released. There are simply no grounds for putting them on trial. As for the rest, if there is a case against them, it is about time we heard it in one court or another.(I would suggest they go on trial in china, which might be counted on to support the American approach to their human rights.)