The front pages today

Dangerous territory:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/04/enemies-of-the-people-british-newspapers-react-judges-brexit-ruling

Maybe it's just me, but nothing new here.  These newspapers always run inflammatory headlines and stories bent on getting the public into a frenzy, from the NHS spending millions of pounds to kill innocent babies to the Muslim top secret plot to bring the UK under strict Sharia law. 

Maybe it's just me, but nothing new here.  These newspapers always run inflammatory headlines and stories bent on getting the public into a frenzy, from the NHS spending millions of pounds to kill innocent babies to the Muslim top secret plot to bring the UK under strict Sharia law.

Perhaps. But the danger here (aside from excitable wackos) is the possibility of influencing the judges at Supreme Court level. A certain amount of this comes with the wig and the robe, but....

Too, it is a not a small point in law. We have a pretty clear-cut case of the Executive not fully understanding/recognising her limits. And it's not me saying that.

Yep...it's you saying that.
Politics......are endlessly crap.
Why can't GOOD people run for office.
Why can't I get Picante sauce.......?

Yep...it's you saying that.

The Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas branded the government’s legal arguments as “divorced from reality” and “flawed at this basic level”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-leaving-european-union-judge-quotes-government-lord-chief-justice-a7395416.html

Maybe it's just me, but nothing new here.  These newspapers always run inflammatory headlines and stories bent on getting the public into a frenzy, from the NHS spending millions of pounds to kill innocent babies to the Muslim top secret plot to bring the UK under strict Sharia law.

God, I used to work with an idiot that thought Sharia law courts were the biggest evil facing this nation.  No matter how many times I tried to explain that it's just another form of arbitration that both sides have to agree on, he was convinced that the Muslims were going to chop his hand off for a parking ticket.

No matter how many times I tried to explain that it's just another form of arbitration that both sides have to agree on, he was convinced that the Muslims were going to chop his hand off for a parking ticket.

I now have this mental image of someone slinking about in the shadows in a car park, clinging on to dear life to his wrist, with a crumpled parking ticket hidden in a pocket somewhere.