Now he's dead, we're all free to describe him as we see fir. He can't do anything about it. The legal position is, of course, as you describe it. But then the legal position is the Savile was an unco… (View Post)

The way the Biden administration has been behaving re Ukraine this month, I have barely more faith in it than I would in a Trump one in its commitment (and commitments) to Europe. Time to get serious… (View Post)

We should be worried that the ECtHR is making these kind of rulings at all. That Britain isn't caught within that net (this time) because of the policies it's chosen isn't really the point. (View Post)

On procedural grounds. The Court didn't get as far as considering the legal case (or what it considers would pass for one). https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/09/top-european-human-rights-court-c… (View Post)

Spectacularly bad ruling by the European Court of Human Rights here, which is playing right into the hands of those who would want to quit it (not least because its overreach is on a subject where it… (View Post)