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UK riots: all rise for Judge Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels takes the law into his own hands to mete out justice to the looters via Twitter
At what point during this week's riots did you realise that events had spiralled into an entirely new realm, so unprecedented they were almost beyond comprehension? For Lost in Showbiz, the answer is simple: it was on Tuesday night, when Paul Daniels started pretending to be a judge and began handing out imaginary sentences to looters on Twitter. "You have been found guilty of crimes against society in that you took part in illegal rioting, looting and violence against the police," he wrote. "You are therefore sentenced to three months military training and then you will be sent to Afghanistan or similar war zone for a period of three years without any reduction of sentence. Take him/her away."
You couldn't say you hadn't seen it coming. All day, tension had been mounting as Daniels, the man Britain invariably looks to in times of grave crisis, publicly wrestled to find a........UK riots: all rise for Judge Paul Daniels | Life and style | The Guardian