I really was brought up to believe that, in this country, nobody could be seriously punished without a jury trial. I was told that governments were in general fair, that a free Press and a benevolent Crown kept us safe from tyranny.
When I read the famous Franz Kafka novel, The Trial, about a man arrested and prosecuted by a power he cannot reach, for a crime that is not named, I thought it was about those dark, tyrannical foreign lands to our east, where such things have always happened.
Now I know that all this may once have been true, but
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