Dum Dums for Dummies

The Daily Telegraph is engaged in a classic piece of ashes-raking this morning, its aggressive immigrantophilia seeking to crank up outrage over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes like the engine of a Tin Lizzy.

It has a report today entitled 'Police used 'dum dum' bullets to kill de Menezes' (hat tip - Tim Worstall).

It seems that JCDM was offed with hollow-pointed 'dum dum' ammunition which according to the Telegraph's John Steele, is 'banned in warfare under international convention' ; as fatuous an observation as one can recall seeing, given that the police were not engaged in warfare under inetrnational convention at the time they popped the innocent Brazilian electrician.

Little Steelie may be being a bit over-enthusiastic when he notes, "It will re-ignite controversy around the shooting"; I'm sure he'd really love it to, were it not for the fact that he notes their use by police in the UK is entirely legal.

So no marks for the Telegraph - bunch of dum dums.