The Digital Economy Bill now before the Lords is a matter of grave concern. The concern centres on two questions: what rights we should assign to ‘intellectual property’, and how
Gordon Brown’s role in the Iraq war will come under focus today when he gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. We can gain perspective on this by considering the two British foreign policy disasters of the last century, Munich and Suez
A farewell to Minister of Justice Michael Wills
A leading lawyer sums it up, Britain's attack on Iraq was illegal
The BBC is not just one of Britain’s best-loved institutions, but also one of its most political. After a year of sniping from both Labour and Conservative front
In the first of two reviews of the former lord chief justice’s book on the rule of law, John Jackson discusses the issue of its compatibility with the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty
According to the ever useful Open Europe press summary Germany's constitutional court has ruled that its country's interpretation of EU rules on data retention breach its
Political representation and diversity
THIS POST HAS TWO CORRECTIONS
I went to the Equality and Human Rights Commission discussion about Human Rights today in London. Not a lot was learnt. Dominic Grieve was interesting.
I am astonished at the way Bullygate is being seen as simply a distracting non-scandal of a sideshow.
We should take the charges against Brown and his New Labour
Hassan Nasrallah meets with Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Damascus. A suicide attack kills seventeen in Kabul. A previously banned judgement on MI5’s use of torture is published. All this and more, in today’s security update.
A personal overview given by the Minister of State at the Department of Justice to a conference at Wilton Park
