Littlejohn on torture.

Richard Littlejohns’ latest column in the Daily Fail is a torturous exercise in justifying the unjustifiable: in this case torture.

Torture does it work? The answer is still probably not

A wee while ago I posted about the convergent evidence that strongly suggests torture doesn’t work. Today I have found another thing that should probably have been included in the original blog but weren’t, however this was not actually my fault (for a change) as I just posted that blog a few weeks too early to include it!

Torture: does it work?

Much to the shame of our armed and security forces it appears we, like our American allies, have been involved in the torture of suspected terrorist or suspected insurgents. The Lib Dems foreign affairs spokesmen is one of many currently calling for a full enquiry into the sorry affair. You can see the full story on the BBC website.