Reflections on yesterday's ruling on the St Paul's Protest
All flourishing Christian organisations need to steer a careful course between mammon and morality. On the one hand there is the wealth, power and influence that flow out of such success, especially if...
View ArticleReflections on last night's law night at Occupy LSX
The discussion at Occupy LSX last night was about the role of law in seeking to change the way we understand the society in which we find ourselves. Interestingly there was far less cynicism about law...
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Conor Gearty, Liberty and Security (Polity Press, forthcoming) All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Gearty calls...
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DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO: HYPOCRISY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Shortly before he became Prime Minister, David Cameron launched the Conservative Party’s Annual Human Rights Report. In it the Party called in...
View ArticleOn being distinguished: a story about an 'influential lawyer'
I first heard I was among The Times ‘Top 100 Lawyers’ on Twitter. I don’t read the paper, in fact have always treated it as a polemical tract only lightly disguised by learning, so I might never have...
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