Here in full gush is our friend Johann Hari, this time bewailing the end of democracy in the USA: For more than a century, the US has slowly put some limits – too few, too feeble – on how much corporations can bribe, bully or intimidate politicians. On Tuesday, they […]
All eyes on Tony Blair, now giving evidence. A further couple of observations on the deep legal angles, drawing on my own conversations with someone very close to all this. First, the legal arguments finally used by the Attorney General to justify the intervention (drawing on the implicit and explicit […]
Anguished as he is by his belated discovery that FCO Legal Adviser Michael Wood had not ‘stabbed him in the back’ as per the foolish description in his book, Craig Murray slumps back into despair: I felt that Michael had stabbed me in the back by refusing to back me […]
Headlines pouring out over what Sir Michael Wood said this morning to the Chilcot Inquiry: Straw rejected advice that Iraq invasion was ‘unlawful’ Let me give you my potted view of this as a lawyer by training but not practice. The various FCO and other documents (some formerly SECRET) now […]
A most satisfactory and philosophically interesting week in the United States. The startling Scott Brown victory in the Massachusetts election for the ex-Kennedy seat in the US Senate has prompted an avalanche of analysis. Obviously it was an unqualified calamity for the Democrats. But what conclusions do Democrats and Republicans alike […]
An ever-alert reader moves on from the wonders of Ask Imam to a British website for what I take to be Fairly Militant Muslims, notably this analysis of the difference between a lion and a lioness: What would a lion without a mane look like? That’s right, it would look […]
Britblog Roundup 253 is hosted by Amused Cynicism. It links to Two Doctors greenly blaming leading planetary Leftists for the Copenhagen debacle: This betrayal was therefore delivered by the most left-wing American president since FDR, a notionally communist regime (although more accurately an authoritarian capitalist one), the more left of the […]
Some readers of this site will know of the wonderful books of Misleading Cases written by A P Herbert, which cast a wry satirical eye on the application of legal principles to real life. See for example his impeccable reasoning in the legendary case of Fardell v Potts, which analyses […]
Remember the Sharpeville Six? They were six South Africans convicted of the murder of a local township leader who ‘collaborated’ with the apartheid regime. Their case became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle. What happened? In early September 1984 in Sharpeville (south of Johannesburg) township protesters angered at rent rises converged upon the house of […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers My former FCO lawyer colleague Dominic Raab has stormed home to win the Conservative Party nomination for the Esher and Walton parliamentary constituency, after securing a strong win in the constituency’s ‘open primary’ when any member of the public could come along to choose a candidate […]
