Politics
Politics
Thoughts on a range of issues of international and national affairs. No apology for devoting so much space to the Iraq war and its manifest illegality: this is probably the most momentous and controversial issue since the Suez disaster of 1956. There are also several articles about the NATO attack on Yugoslavia over Kosovo, raising some questions that strongly resemble those arising from the Iraq disaster. Also explaining my resignation from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, chiefly because of the government’s introduction of detention without trial, with thoughts on the campaign (not a war) against terrorism and the indefensible erosion of our civil liberties that it has already entailed, notwithstanding London’s infamous 7/7.
- Julian Assange, Ecuador and the law: a compendium
- Civil Liberties
- IPPs: extracts from parliamentary papers, October 2011
- John Greenwell on SIAC Torture Cases
- The painful truth
- Extracts from RIPA 2000
- Myra Hindley
- Guantanamo: an email
- From prison to house arrest: out of the frying pan
- Detention without trial: Letter to the Times
- Release of C – extracts
- Mary Bell: Monster or Victim?
- International
- Gaza: frontiers or prison walls?
- Le Monde on the new British ambassador to the Vatican
- David Tothill: Dick Woolcott’s House
- The Arms for Sierra Leone Affair
- First reaction to 11 September in New York and Washington
- Another view of Israel and Palestine
- Iraq and the great march against George W Bush and his war
- Blair on military action without UN authority
- Kosovo, a Just War?
- Letter to Congressman Pete King
- The letter of the 52 Diplomats to Tony Blair
- What advice did the Attorney-General really give?
- Was the Iraq War Legal?
- Iraq: the Butler Inquiry and the Law
- War in Iraq by Mark Littman QC
- Legality of intervention against Iraq – Letter to the Times
- Kosovo: An Alternative View
- UK Politics