MPs should stop behaving as if they were at an ancient public school | Simon Jenkins

The fiasco over the European arrest warrant debate shows MPs supine before outmoded tradition and party machines

Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy. You guessed it. Another jolly evening in the mother of parliaments. Monday nights antics, with a prime minister in tails, a lord chancellor in pantaloons, a home secretary in fake leopard and whips in a panic, would have been implausible as a staging of The Mikado. And all because MPs had been promised a...