“‘Tagging for terror’ under the new Prevention of Terrorism Act got off to an inauspicious start over the weekend, with one control order detainee left without money, food or phone for 17 hours, police being forced to break down the door of one flat, and detainees claiming to be baffled by what their control orders allowed them to do, and who they were allowed to see.”
“For some years now The Register has been of the opinion that Government incompetence was one of the UK’s most important safeguards against totalitarianism, and we are therefore more than a little comforted by unfolding events.”