Rights

Introduction  Eric Barendt, in his 2009 article Freedom of Expression in the United Kingdom under the Human Rights Act 1998, begins with a stark observation: “English law has traditionally taken little or no notice of freedom of speech.” I … [Read more...] about A Very Short History of Freedom of Speech

The introduction of a national digital ID scheme wasn’t in the 2024 Labour Party manifesto. It now seems a significant omission. National ID schemes have a rather chequered history, and Labour preferred not to reignite the debate during the general … [Read more...] about Identity – The Crisis You Can’t See: Time for digital ID?

Introduction At half past noon on 26 April 2006, a chorus of MPs shouted "Resign"! Labour’s Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, was due to make a statement to the House of Commons. The papers were awash with condemnation of the Blair Government’s … [Read more...] about Foreign Criminal Deportation in Review: Rules, Rights & Laws

In 1912, the shipyard of Harland and Wolff in East Belfast produced a ship that was state of the art, a marvel of engineering, “designed to be unsinkable”. As it traversed the iceberg-laden waters of the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage at high … [Read more...] about The Titanic Struggle over the Illegal Migration Act

It is ironic that one of the greatest pieces of constitutional reform and improvement in the UK – the Representation of the People Act 1832, and its partner acts the Irish and Scottish Reform Acts of 1832 – was also the vehicle for restricting the … [Read more...] about International Women’s Day