I thought this interesting 17 minutes well worth it – in which Jolyon Maugham outlines his incredulity at the corrupt government practices he discovered and what he and the Good Law Project are trying to do about it: Jolyon Maugham explains things simply and well – and in the current situation his Good Law Project… Read more
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Constitution
The Colston Four
This is a very incisive David Allen Green post which points out that the Colston four judgement does not in any way prejudice the Rule of Law as some Tories have suggested. The defence was certainly intelligent – and itemised here: I do recommend reading the whole David Allen Green article – he has more… Read more
What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?
This is presumably a film of Dominic Raab discussing the ECHR with all his advisors…. The point is well made in just 2 minutes and twenty seconds:… Read more
The non party that certainly did not take place but still obeyed all the rules…
That Allegra Stratton, who seems to have been transformed from a government spokeswoman to COP spokeswoman to now PM ‘advisor’, has had the decency to resign (at a mere £100k per year) for not attending the party that didn’t take place – because, as she said in the video – she went home, shows how… Read more
Surely government is US?
There is a new localist movement, which I feel many are likely to approve of – as do I. It is called ‘We’re right Here’ and has been particularly inspired by the local necessities of coping with Covid. Local authorities have been effectively sidelined by the mammoth £37 billion Test and Trace budget. In spite… Read more
Real levelling up
This was interesting – from the currently free to access ‘Times’ Apparently Gove’s Department for levelling up is considering whether ‘Governors’ could ‘level up’ England… Perhaps they could – though we learn that the minimum population is set 500K in order to be given some local powers. Quite why 500k is a magic figure we… Read more
A word for Dianne Abbott
We’ve just had an entire day of MP’s and indeed, journalists talking about the scourge of online abuse towards politicians. Yet there’s barely been a mention of the politician who receives the most online abuse (it seems – by an absolute country mile), Dianne Abbott. And a similar quantity of mainstream orthodox press abuse as… Read more
You can’t learn from history if you don’t know what it was
This short video gives information on the legal action that now has the necessary permission to bring a case to try to outlaw messaging secrecy within government. The case is a joint effort between All the Citizens, which is an organisation campaigning for more transparency and Foxglove Legal, which campaigns to hold the tech giants… Read more
The purpose of the state
It seems to me that this is more and more of a problem as our current government appears to be of the opinion that in fact the state has little, or even, no purpose. In spite of the fact that they are in charge of it. Clearly the Johnson government like being in charge because… Read more
Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence
For anyone who hasn’t seen this petition, personally, I suggest that this is well worth signing . Why on earth directly lying to the House of Commons should not be made a criminal offence needs some considerable explaining (not least by the speaker)…. Here is the link to sign the Parliamentary petition…. Read more