This doesn’t look good:

“Judges are to be given tough powers to protect Britain from pollution and over-development under proposals for a new environmental court.”

The law’s the law, and regular courts should be left to enforce it. Obviously, traditional impartiality is not enough for the UK’s Green enforcers. Still, this won’t worry the Independent. Its coverage of this story includes this gem:

“The move follows concern that the legal system has failed to meet the growing threat posed by industry and multi-national companies.”

The growing threat posed by industry? Yup. Jobs, prosperity, progress, threats like that, threats that have made the UK rich enough to clean up its environment to a degree unimaginable thirty or forty years ago.

Ridiculous.