More broken-backed than Brokeback, the rebels afraid to strike

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column

What keeps us free? Mainly, the difference between the two big parties in Parliament. As long as they are not too friendly, governments cannot get away with attempts to push us around, or make bad laws. But in the new era of the Coalition, there is no such difference.

Nobody even pretends that there is. Two of the parties are clasped in a fond embrace. The third looks on beaming. Take this astonishing example from the House of Commons on...