Because, as far as I know, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is his actual name and the one he is repeatedly convicted under. (View Post)

The ECHR is part of the Council of Europe, a condition of membership and a key component of the UK's collection of international treaties. You would break all of these by exiting ECHR. It isn�… (View Post)

Seems to be good news and bad news from the Czech election. Good news is the straightforwardly fascist parties have done badly. The bad news is yet another dodgy Eastern European populist strongman h… (View Post)

The effect of banning candidates that don't sign up to exit from ECHR is to force people who know it to be a bad idea to pretend it's fine. This is different from requiring candidates to ac… (View Post)

If a country can't torture its citizens at will without outside interference (which is the only reason any country has left the Council of Europe) then what's the point? Greece under the mi… (View Post)