And its good to see you too KerrAvon. This thread is a bit tedious - I got sucked into it. I'm not sure how much more I can take.

Yes, the Supreme Court is as you say but it was a change to a system that wasn't broken and that had worked very well for 600 years. There was a strong cost argument for maintaining old judicial committee of the House of Lords. The old system was part of parliament and I feel very uneasy, to say the least, when bodies external to parliament start creating statutes "on the fly". The Spectator article deals with this far better than I could.