While business leaders find their appreciation for human rights in the case of the Natwest three, the proposed extradition of terror suspects continues relatively unabated.

The latest deal to be suggested is with Algeria, for reasons that Bair says is for "greater co-operation between our countries can facilitate our ability to send people back to Algeria who are in this country and who for reasons for example of involvement in extremism we wish to deport."

In conjunction with the arrival of the Algerian president to the UK Amnesty International have released a report detailing the use of torture by "Military Security", known as the Department for Information and Security (Département du renseignement et de la sécurité, DRS).

As with other frontlines in the 'war on terror', and with a back drop of the governments energy review "Algeria was forecast to provide 12% of our gas and be Europe's second largest source of gas after Russia and BP had an investment of $4billion there".

How many torturing nations does it take to switch on a light bulb?