A court in London heard today that UK subject Binyan Mohamed (only just a British subject but a subject all the same) had been interviewed in Karachi by an MI5 officer, identified as 'witness B', who had every reason to suspect that Mohamed had been tortured but omitted to ask. All this without the 42 bits of information about the same case that foreign secretary David Miliband has been trying to so hard to withhold. Let's face it, on the 20th anniversary of the defeated Russians puling out of Afghanistan, the UK and its master the US are in a huge hole over their conduct of the 'war on terror' and concealing evidence in such a blatant way will only make things worse. So why don't both governments just apologise and promise to do better? One, because the Americans never do (and they're still bombing Pakistanis with unmanned planes) and, two, because British ministers are terrified of finding themselves in court. Robert Harris in his novel The Ghost supposes that a former British PM, aka Tony Blair, is arraigned before the UN Court of Human Rights. To Blair you might add former foreign secretary Jack Straw and a succession of defence and home office ministers. Not to mention the bigwigs in charge of MI5 and MI6. Well it's one way to take their minds off the financial crisis.