Oh cut the histrionics. The people are the line of defence. Your pretensions that there would be no further elections are just such obvious bullshit that you undermine any valid points you may have. (View Post)

. Ian Hislop recently said he thought a modern day Maxwell could hide behind 'privacy' laws to stop the press revealing what he did wrong. The balance between a free press and 'privacy' has gone far … (View Post)

"Parliament to pass an interpretation bill" . . . that's not ministers overruling judges, that's Parliament passing laws as its sovereign to do. That is entirely reasonable. If the courts p… (View Post)

I mean the former. If a Judge interprets a law badly, and Parliament clarifies the law for next time, then that is Parliament doing its own job. It is for Parliament to determine what the law is, not… (View Post)

Plus he's not stupid. The west offers some easy pickings. Xi does not. (View Post)