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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
international law Archive
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The death of Osama Bin Laden
Posted on 05/05/2011 | 1 CommentQuakers are enjoined to see “that of God in everyone”, but it must be hard to see it in the person of Osama Bin Laden. A terrorist and a mass murderer, he was behind the deaths of thousands of innocents: this website can find more... -
Too much information
Posted on 26/01/2011 | No CommentsOne has to admire the elegance of Tony Blair’s argument in front of the Chilcot enquiry last Friday. He was recalled to the enquiry after his previous appearance a year ago in order to answer some additional questions, of which the main one related to... -
Nick Clegg: a blunder, not a crime
Posted on 22/07/2010 | No CommentsIt seems that Nick Clegg is still adapting to government. Describing the Iraq war as “illegal”, as he did in the House of Commons yesterday, may have made sense as part of his election campaign messaging, but not something to be said by someone deputising... -
When it comes to law, we are looking in the wrong place
Posted on 28/01/2010 | No CommentsLetter published in the Guardian, 28 January 2010 Jack Straw’s letter to the attorney general of 20 February 2003, published by the Chilcot inquiry, shows that, when it comes to a legal view of the Iraq war, we are looking in the wrong place. He... -
Why does the government employ lawyers?
Posted on 26/01/2010 | No CommentsThe Chilcot inquiry’s encounter with Jack Straw is turning up yet more gems. Jack Straw was foreign secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq and the inquiry into British government decision-making has revealed this comment from him in response to legal advice that... -
The trial of Tzipi Livni
Posted on 17/12/2009 | 1 CommentLet me say at the outset that there is no simple answer to this question. The development of the law in theory has outstripped the implementation of the law in practice, which is bound to create difficulties. I shall come back to this theme. The... -
International anarchy at sea
Posted on 07/12/2009 | No CommentsThis blog has written before about the spate of piracy in the seas off the coast of Somalia. Ships are being taken hostage and ransomed back to their owners; the same is true of passengers on smaller craft. The limits of the law are exposed... -
The law is an ass
Posted on 26/11/2008 | 1 CommentAmid European rejoicing about the restoration of multilateralism to the White House in the recent American presidential election, an interesting corrective is published in the Wall Street Journal. Law professors Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner examine the European record on adhering to international law and... -
A conflict of sovereignties
Posted on 24/11/2008 | No CommentsAn unusual article, but a good one, in the First Post by Claire Berlinski worries about the possibility of an oil tanker accident in the Bosphorus, the sea passage between Europe and Asia that runs through the heart of Istanbul. The oil boom in the... -
Independence for Kosovo
Posted on 22/02/2008 | 1 CommentThe province of Kosovo emerged from its chrysalis last week as a new state, separate from Serbia of which it was part for so long. It is not yet a beautiful butterfly – in fact it barely has wings – so what happens next? The...
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