UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has issued a stark new warning about the "growing" terror threat in the UK, with 30 plots and 2000 individuals under police surveillance. Quite by chance, this warning comes as Parliament prepares to consider the Government's plan to increase the period for which terror suspects can be held without charge to 42 days from the current 28 days. There is absolutely no logical connection between the number of plots and the holding period, but I suppose it all helps to create the atmosphere of fear that the Government is relying on to push this measure through.
Am I the only one, though, that thinks this stark warning might have been more convincing if it hadn't been placed in the News of the World, behind the wall-to-wall Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews and Heather Mills coverage? Then again, Ms Smith was briefly famous for supposedly showing off too much cleavage in the House of Commons, so maybe this is where she belongs.
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