Oh dear. It seems that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has blundered again. The latest furore is about the agency’s decision to drop a China espionage case that alleged the involvement of more than two dozen reports to Beijing intelligence. The case collapsed yesterday and ‘not guilty’ verdicts were entered after Tom Little KC, the prosecutor, told the Old Bailey ‘we simply cannot continue to prosecute this case’. The trial was due to begin next month but Little said that the evidential threshold had not been met. Cue outrage from various Sinosceptics….

A quintet of senior parliamentarians have now written to Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, demanding answers. Three MPs – Neil O’Brien, Tom Tugendhat and Sir Iain Duncan Smith – have co-signed a letter along with

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