The reason the Pakistani situation caught my interest, and why I thought it was right to cover it to some extent in this blawg, was not just the central importance in that crisis of the Supreme Court, but also the […]

I’ve not blogged about Pakistan for a while, but of course I’m delighted that there’s now a new government under Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, and that following his first order, political prisoners including deposed Chief Justice Iftihkhar Chaudhry […]

There are five of them.

Brit Syndicates is about the construction of an insurance indemnity policy: not my kind of thing at all. Total Network is about VAT “carousel” or “MTIC” fraud […]

Wow! I actually agree again with David Pannick in his Times column today. And not just on DNA and the UK’s defence in S and Marper case. I also think his comments on […]

Last week the UK failed in its attempts to reopen and change the approach of the European Court of Human Rights to the deportation of terror suspects: in the case of Saadi v Italy, in which the […]

According to the Guardian he’s hoping for a late surge, by copying the campaign technique of the Pakistani President. Let’s hope he meets with similar success!

This morning the European Court of Human Rights heard this case, about the UK’s DNA database: Messrs. S and Marper argue that keeping their DNA on the database is in breach of their rights under article 8 of the ECHR […]

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

As I said to Charon in his weekly review yesterday, it’s time I blogged again about Pakistan. The outcome of the elections means the next government is almost certain to be a coalition between the Pakistan People’s Party, formerly […]

I just knew there was going to be a pro-Williams backlash today. To be fair to the people who’ve stepped up to the plate, they’re brave in taking an unpopular stance. But I’m so, soooo in disagreement with them that […]