Yeah, but (1) to (3) is what our state is good at. These speeches, reports and policy documents will no doubt be very eloquent and with the appropriate classical references. The actual building stuff… (View Post)

AIUI and IANAE on this the original 1911 Official Secrets Act was focused on enemies of the state. Essentially, giving secrets to these enemies was a statutory form of treason. This meant that the pr… (View Post)

I was sitting in the train opposite Humza Yousaf last week. Not entirely sure my excitement registered on the Richter scale. (View Post)

The Cass review to my mind was no more and no less than a statement of the blindingly obvious. But it was authoritatively done and left the child mutilators with no where to go. It remains genuinely … (View Post)

This is from the House of Commons Library paper on the deportation of criminals which I happened to be looking at this morning: "The Immigration Act 1971 originally envisaged deportation being d… (View Post)