I had masses years ago. I kept a little a few months ago, but it has been disappearing for a while now. I think now it has all gone. I have lost respect for Tony Blair.

Blair seems at the moment to have a dogmatic air of arrogance around him. He has a healthy majority and yet even when that majority disappears in votes he refuses to listen to his party, he refuses to listen to human rights groups, in fact he refuses to listen to anybody.

We are a civilised country. Well, actually, after my last post I will change that to ‘we like to think of ourselves as a civilised country’. How can we even be considering holding people without charge for 90 days and, I personally think worse, debating whether evidence obtained during torture is admissible.

These 2 things undermine our identity as a country. They undermine our strong base of human rights. They take away all dignity and respect for human life.

A little while ago we were shocked as a nation at photos of mistreatment of Iraqi people. Now our courts are considering whether evidence obtained from that abuse can be used in courts! This is madness.

The police and government tell us that the Terrorism Act will be used wisely and only those which they have real suspicion over will be detained. The only problem I have with that is that here you can find a picture of the last person I remember to be detained under the act.