Another thing on David Davis and 42 days

A quick postscript on David Davis and 42 days: I heard an interesting commentary on Davis's motivation for his decision to resign from parliament and his commitment to civil liberties. In short it is driven by his belief that habeus corpus is an important British tradition, not by a liberal commitment to civil liberties. No great surprise (he is a conservative (with a deliberately small 'c') after all) but a warning to anyone who thinks that Davis is going to be a warrior for all our liberties. He won't fight for them unless he considers any given liberty to be a British tradition.