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Proof positive, if you ever needed it, of how hollow Britain's Human Rights rhetoric is.  Thanks to damaia for the link.

Remember all those exhortations for intervention in Afghanistan – how Cherie Blair et al bollocked on about saving women from a repressive fundamentalist regime.  Remember, more recently, all the hand-wringing when the riots kicked off in Tehran – the dreadful abuse of democratic rights in Iran.  David "Crush the Chagos Islanders" Miliband in sombre, lecturing mode.  Oh, we ...