The Times reports on the Hone Secratary’s plans to expel more foreigners he regards to be hate-mongers. He also suggested another attack on London could take place soon:

Charles Clarke plans to move against scores of militants accused of stirring up hatred as soon as new immigration rules come into force at the weekend.

The Home Secretary said that further expulsions were imminent and that it would be “absolutely foolish” to
assume that there will not be a third terrorist attack in London.

These militants are mostly lesser-known clerics from Pakistan and North Africa. The names aren’t being released so as not to forewarn them. Clerics aren’t the only likely deportees; the Home Secratary’s eyes are on owners of radical Islamic bookshops, writers, a number of teachers and website operators who are regarded as undesirable.

The government is trying to secure agreements with Algeria and Lebanon regarding their acceptance of the arrested men.

What, I wonder, will we be doing about British-born Muslim undesirables against whom we have similar evidence?

The juggling act between liberty - which this government generally regards as a frustration to their attempts to govern - and protecting the public from some of the most dangerous people in the world is likely to be a tricky one.

We need to be vigilant because I don’t think Labour is a particularly big fan of individual freedom.