whether we allow tough-won freedoms to be discarded without a fight,what is to stop the powerful coming for other rights?The Daily Mail and the left don't often find themselves on the same side, but when they finish it is worth paying attention. The Daily Mail is absolutely right (not a sentence you will catch me typing on a regular basis) to splash on "Britain's first secret trial". It's an affront to basic principles of justice, or a frightening precedent to boot. At risk of sounding like a Mail columnist myself: where will it finish?Two men,known only as AB and CD, have been charged with terrorism; journalists were forbidden from disclosing even this simple fact until newspapers overturned a gagging order. But for the first time in centuries – and in a direct challenge to the Magna Carta of 1215 – the entire trial will be held in secrecy.
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Source: theguardian.com