The Economist: "Infringements of civil rights, if genuinely required, should be open to scrutiny, and considered a painful sacrifice, or a purely tactical retreat, not as the mere brushing aside of irritating legal technicalities". BBC: "MPs are angry at the lack of time they have been given to scrutinize a bill that will have serious implications for civil liberties. In total, the Commons has been given just three days to look at the legislation". Observer: "As Home Secretary, [Blunkett] has ordered foreigners to study British traditions before they receive citizenship. Will the young and the alien now learn that Britain is a country where the presumption of innocence and habeas corpus are dispensable fripperies, where the police can search without a warrant and where you can be jailed without a judge, let alone a jury, hearing your case?"