I was heartened today to see Blair’s draconian plan to allow terror suspects be detained for 90 days without charge defeated in the House of Commons. It was reduced to 28 days which is still a long time that the police can hold you without providing any evidence to anyone but it is dramatically better than 90! It’s great to see British MPs being smart enough not to over-react to the London bombings in the same way as American lawmakers did to 9-11 by agreeing to Bush’s truly medieval Patriot Act.