Don't you just love UK politics and legal system?

Sometimes there seems to be as much secrecy as one would suspect in an Eastern Bloc country during the Cold War.  Two (unrelated) examples...

The Baby 'P' case (more on what can't be said and why we can't know why what can't be said about what can't be heard and why here).

And then there's the Hampshire hospice that sadly has (or should that be had?) money tied up in failed Icelandic banks and what the speaker of the Houses of Parliament said to the local MP when she wanted action on this (from BBC News):

But speaker Michael Martin refused and said the subject was not appropriate.

On Wednesday, he told the Basingstoke MP: "I've listened carefully to what you have said and I have to give my decision without stating any reasons.

"I am afraid that I do not consider that the matter which you have raised is appropriate for discussion."

'I have to give my decision without stating my reasons'... what the fudge!?  Us lowly subjects of her Maj don't understand all this nonsense.  To us this seems cold, detached and ridiculous.  But what do we know?

Isn't about time things became more open?  And let's stop this silly way of talking in Parliament.  C'mon tradition is all well and good but really, let's have some straight talk, my right honourable member!