An independent judiciary is welcome, says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, yet it is striking how hard the judges fought toreject any elected oversight.
Some councils have opposed a specific Whitehall target that commits them to assess how much Muslims in their area reject and condemn violent extremism, arguing it singles them out and labels the area as a terrorism hot-spot.
How many people who are dreaming up names violently reject choices based on their emotional reaction not to the sound of the name but to the connotation?
Although the Security Council is expected toreject Iraq's demands for a moratorium on inspections there are still likely to be divisions over howto make Iraq backdown.