I was amazed, watching Question Time on the BBC tonight, to hear both Harriet Harman and Simon Hughes suggest that one of the ways the Reform Treaty differs from the EU Constitution is in not providing for a “European President”. […]

I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]

I was interested that at the Conservative conference last week David Cameron made clear a future Tory government will try to opt out of the EU social chapter. Not that that’s new – as this story shows – though […]

I noticed an interesting letter in the Telegraph yesterday from Lord Wedderburn QC. It’s a bit cryptic, but I think he’s suggesting the ECJ might be about to create a new, enforceable right to strike.

The two cases […]

I broadly welcome the Commons European Scrutiny Committee’s report about the inter-governmental conference on the Reform Treaty.

The most important point they make is that the Reform Treaty is the “substantial equivalent” of the Constitution. The committee is […]

Jack Straw’s speech at Bournemouth the other week contained a surprise: the Labour government having rejected amendment to the law of self-defence a couple of years back, now the new Lord Chancellor says

the […]

EU Law Blog has posted the latest draft of the Reform Treaty, as it’s emerged from the group of http://www.nflauthenticjersey.com/ Council, Commission and Member States’ governments’ legal experts that have been working on it in Brussels since […]

One of the things I omitted to comment on in my September slackness was Mervyn King’s explanation to the Commons Treasury Select Committee of why he couldn’t organise a secret takeover of Northern Rock bank, or give it covert support.

Most discussion of the possibility of a November election assumes that the decision is solely Gordon Brown’s. But is it really that simple? I think not.

It’s the Queen who dissolves Parliament in fact, by issuing a proclamation under […]

My post yesterday, I now realise, was suffused with a heavy weariness. I do find Fayed and his litigious crusading pretty tiresome: though I suppose I have to forgive him the Neil Hamilton nonsense, since it was Hamilton who sued […]