Category: Politics
That hateful religious hatred Bill
Once again the government is seeking parliamentary approval for the religious hatred Bill which has been repeatedly condemned and rejected on all sides, from far left to far right, as an unconscionable and unenforceable...
The Federation of the United Kingdom is here
The paradox highlighted by Tam Dalyell’s West Lothian Question (why should Scottish MPs at Westminster be allowed to vote on English domestic matters while they would not be allowed to vote on Scottish domestic...
Ratifying the dead treaty: flogging a dead donkey?
The issue emerging here now is whether it would be legitimate for EU governments to ‘cherry-pick’ bits out of the constitution treaty that are plainly necessary to enable the hugely expanded EU to go on functioning, and that could theoretically be brought into effect without the need to amend the existing treaties.
Identity cards, the national database and EU fundamental rights
The database will be the biggest ever invasion of British citizens’ privacy and lacks the most elementary safeguards — if it ever works
Part I: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister
The main importance of the 13-page ‘advice’ of the Attorney-General on the legality (or lack of it) of going to war against Iraq without a second UN resolution authorising it, given to the prime minister on 7 March 2003, lies in the harsh and unforgiving light it sheds on the same Attorney-General’s ‘opinion’, published 10 days later
Part II: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister
In Part I of this piece, I have suggested that the suppression of the warnings and qualifications in the Attorney-General’s advice of 7 March ’03 in effect misrepresented his unqualified opinion published 10 days...
Iraq and the second resolution: it wasn’t the French wot done it, whatever ministers (and the Guardian) might say
Letter to the Guardian on the advice and implications