Exclusive: Martha Stewart banned from Britain! Her loss — or ours?

I was scheduled to have dinner with Martha Stewart, America’s very own domestic goddess, in London next week — but not any more. She was due to arrive for an extended visit to the UK this weekend. But the Home Office has refused her application for a visa, presumably because of the time she spent in the slammer in America for a cover up over insider dealing.
 
The Home Office tells me that the government “opposes the entry of individuals to the UK where their presence is not conducive to the public good or where they have been found guilty of serious criminal offences abroad.”
 
Obviously, this American celebrity cook and home-maker is more of a danger to national security than Abu-Qatada or the many other jihad-loving, democracy-hating mullahs still in our midst.
 
Martha Stewart’s crime was not just insider dealing (for which almost nobody is convicted in this country, even though it happens everyday) but trying to cover it up, which is more serious.