It’s becoming increasingly clear that when it comes to terrorism, weasel language is the way of the future. Last week The Man Of Steel and The Ghoul (ie. Philip Ruddock — thanks to joe2 in comments for the cool name) proved that torture is okay when you’re torturing potential terrorists because then it’s only “coercion”. Now it seems that being locked alone in a small concrete cell for 23 hours per day is not solitary confinement, but simply being blessed with a “single-occupancy cell”.

The campaign to paint Guantanamo Bay as a holiday resort is intensifying with right-wing commentators such as Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt so awestruck by inmates’ calorie intake and medical care I reckon they should check themselves in for an extended stay.