Although the government has refused to publish the draft declaration it circulated last Thursday to the other 46 states that are signed up to the European court of human rights, a leaked French text makes it clear that the UK wants more cases decided at national level and fewer embarrassing rulings from Strasbourg.
The ban is clearly designed so that none of the nation's competitors embarrass the ruling regime on the international stage by brandishing their opponent's emblem.
"Inherent in a terrorist's strategy, through the ages, is to embarrass the ruling power and depict the ruling power as inept and incompetent and unable to maintain even a modicum of authority," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist at the Rand Corporation.
Yet the latest wave of PKK attacks has embarrassed the ruling Justice and Development Party AKPP) and raised new questions about the army's competence.
One tribunal has already embarrassed the ruling Fianna Fail party with revelations embroiling Charles Haughey, a former prime minister, and one of Ireland's longest-serving.
Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffè, a business professor at the Bocconi school of management in Milan, where Uber is based, said the judge's ruling was "embarrassing" and "entirely ideological".
The Comet ruling is embarrassing for Deloitte, as it was previously involved in the administration of Woolworths, where the government had to pay out £67m in compensation to 24,000 workers who were made redundant when the high-street store collapsed in 2008.
One theory is that it was a Gazan clan chieftain or official trying to embarrass Hamas, the PA's ruling party.
Although Thursday's ruling embarrassed Major League Baseball, two prominent antidoping experts noted that no testing system was fool-proof.
Tuschi's film, which I haven't seen, is potentially a document of high political and moral moment, one that could embarrass Russia's ruling clique with revelations of official misdeeds and abuses.
