The rulings of this particular court are advisory: We are not required to implement them by any treaty. If Mauritius is so intent on having them returned to Mauritian control, why are why having to p… (View Post)

You’d think so, but I honestly think it’s lawyer brain in action. You can’t possibly refuse to implement a legal ruling: what would the world come to if every country did that?! (Spoiler: we are in a… (View Post)

Jesus wept. Where exactly are we supposed to be getting this £9billion from? To pay for a transfer of sovereignty that the Chagossians themselves don’t even want & pisses off our most important m… (View Post)

That would have involved making the statistical argument that they clearly didn’t want to have to make. I have wondered whether her defence actually thought she was guilty. They mounted the best prof… (View Post)

It’s very simple: if your case rate puts more people into hospital than there are staffed ventilators to support them then people will die who otherwise would have survived. Yes, this is conjecture. … (View Post)