McAlpine, Newsnight and All That ...

[Flosshilde]

Or better still:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSZIXuiEls

They don't make them like that any more! & a very young Jimmy Stewart, too.

[Pabmusic]

Or better still:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSZIXuiEls

Marlene Dietrich does a very good sprechgesang. No wonder she gets shot in the end.

[Pabmusic]

Rather a strange argument - if an innocent person has been hanged, then the guilty one hasn't been caught, have they?

(It was Michael Howard I remember trotting this out in the early '90s.)

[scottycelt]

Rather a strange argument - if an innocent person has been hanged, then the guilty one hasn't been caught, have they?

It is a cruel, unthinking and quite desperate 'argument'.

In fact it is so thoroughly desperate it does nothing but hugely boost the moral case against capital punishment