Not a very good title, really, since according to the Guardian, the trial was held behind closed doors but there are similarities with the “confession” (the Guardian’s inverted commas) of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the show trials of Stalinist Russia. The man, after more than three years under arrest quietly contemplating the error of his ways, has confessed to quite a lot: “nearly three dozen attacks – many of which were foiled – including the Bali bombings, the failed shoe bomb plot, the 1993 World Trade Centre truck bombings and plans to destroy Heathrow airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben.”

Remember White Van Man who cut you off on the way to work last April? That was him too.