Not pretty.

"How did the Home Office get to the point where it started deporting innocent people on the basis of unreliable hearsay evidence and without any proper judicial remedy? Why did the home secretary breach her duty of candour with those being accused of fraud? How is a private firm contracted to do public service work for the UK government issui…

Quelle surprise.

At last.

Good question.

"He died that wicked men could win some votes."

Human Rights Watch nails it.

An excellent fisking!

My old friend Christine Bell writes.

You have been warned.

Fighting the lies.

A handy guide.

Stupid populist pandering.

They need a reason?

"Politically, the UK would be sending a clear signal to states which lose far more cases in Strasbourg, such as Russia and Turkey, that it no longer had confidence in the ECHR system. Whether you think that is a bad thing probably depends on your underlying theory of international relations and whether you think international institutions wor…

Tory attorney-general is right.

Defence of the ECHR.

Labour Party adviser with extreme views on immigration dismissed as "over the top" and "simply not practicable" by leader of hard right Migration Watch thinktank.

Professor Miller said that such a reform would do no more than to bring the UK into line with countries including Canada, Australia, France, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and many others. He added that the UK Government could and should have resolved this issue several years ago. In being allowed by the European Court of Human Rights a further…

What I do know is that a society that makes a virtue of illiberal behaviour will treat its citizens illiberally; a culture that demands injustice in the name of common sense will perpetrate injustices.  I know that a citizenry that puts all of its faith in infantile concepts like force and "common sense" will receive plenty of the former…