The national interest is best served by an open debate on the impact of Brexit – not spurious comparisons
Lord Turnbull, former Head of the Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary, has attacked leading Brexiters – in particular the assertion that Treasury officials had deliberately developed an impact assessment model to show that all Brexit options were bad. This culminated...
Don’t write off Blockchain because of the Bitcoin hype
The financial wealth accumulated by speculative investment in Bitcoin and other over-hyped crypto-currencies may well be short-lived. Commentators cry asset bubble, comparisons are made to the tulip mania boom in the 17th century and Nobel Prize-winning economist...
Back to the Future – with Max Hill QC
Max Hill QC yesterday appeared in Parliament before the Joint Committee on Human Rights to discuss his role as the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. While stressing that his remit is restricted to four anti-terrorism statutes, Hill nonetheless made...
Islamist attacks on Sara Khan show importance of Extremism Commissioner
Reactions to the appointment last week of human rights campaigner Sara Khan as the Government’s Commissioner for Countering Extremism were as disappointing as they were predictable. Rather than focusing on her qualifications or the extremist ideas and behaviour she...
