David Pannick’s Times column today is about the most famous French advocate of the age, Jacques Vergès, a repellent yet compelling figure whose political extremism and cynicism make radical British lawyers look like naive lackeys of the establishment.

Regular readers will know I quite often disagree with with what David Pannick writes in the Times; I also find myself often agreeing with David Aaronovitch who writes in the same paper. Well, this week my reactions are

Heavens! What’s going on? I actually agree with what he says in the Times today about European free movement and discrimination law, and sport: it http://www.gooakley.com/ really is no good ministers or sports bodies trying […]

I can’t quite believe the extent of my disagreement with David Pannick’s article in today’s Times, the title of which suggests it may be about immigration, but which is actually about the government’s planned “British bill of […]

In today’s Times, David Pannick argues for major reform of the Attorney General’s role, along the lines argued by various people including even ministers in recent weeks. He argues that Lord Goldsmith’s recent endorsement of the […]