A very good summary of Lord Hermer’s lecture last night. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
UK wants new permanent members on the security council
There is some pressure on commercial authors to minimise or remove notes. It’s thought they put readers off because they make books look too thinky, & of course higher page counts cost more to print & ship. But in an age when we all need to think critically & assess sources, this is disastrous.
Maybe also an impact on the question of what rights cohabitees should have. Legally they've basically had none I think. There's been a long campaign to change that, and I think based on past injustices there's been a tendency to assume that the reason we need change is to protect women.
What happens after ECHRexit: 1. The sun will rise. 2. The boats will still come. 3. France will be less cooperative and will not take any migrants back. 4. The EU will sanction us, esp over NI. 5. Brexiters will wail about punishment and will then call for exit from the 1951 UN refugee convention.
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Vote Leave had the notorious NHS ad.
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Yes, I think that's at least part of the explanation.
I don’t agree with it but the simple, distinctive, easily doable policy that might actually help the Tories would be simply to repeal the Human Rights Act, without any British Bill of Rights rubbish or ECHR withdrawal. It’s bonkers that they’ve never had this policy.
Given that Robert Jenrick is doubling down on his position on leaving the ECHR - insisting that anyone in his Shadow Cabinet would have to support this position - I guess it’s time to repost this. Again. Rather depressing. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Anyone reading the news over the past two days could be forgiven for feeling a certain sense of déjà vu. Senior figures in government, including an unnamed cabinet minister, have suggested that if Rwa...