I'm not sure if my previous reply posted (I got a strange error message) - I agree about the need for the judiciary to be more accountable; even in the extreme example of a judge lauding a serial burglar's "courage" for breaking into people's homes and letting him off with no jail time, he was merely publicly told off by a senior judge, rather than fired as he should have been.

I mentioned the arrest for posting a bad-taste joke on Twitter already; we've also seen prosecutions for possession of photographs of fisting, and for posting an adult BDSM fantasy on asstr.org - and today brought this alarming headline: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...web-censorship - the UK government wanting to remove online content which is not even "obscene", but merely "unsavoury". Presumably it hasn't occurred to them that the most unsavoury aspect here is their own conduct!