RT @WillHeaven .@CamCavendish in today's @ftweekend: "The think-tank Policy Exchange has argued persuasively that the [Treason] act must be updated to make betrayal a specific crime, which must be punished." It would help deal with returning Isis brides, she says. ft.com/content/157c8… pic.twitter.com/zbFJ…

‘The UK needs to update its treason laws to allow us to deal with returning “jihadi brides”’ - our senior fellow @RichardWalton20 writes for @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/HSry…

.’It seems incredible that the UK’s leading judge should have thought that until the advent of the European Convention of Human Rights in 1951 UK law did not recognise human rights other than through the common law.’ Hon. Sir Ross Cranston judicialpowerproject…

.‘The judicial challenge is to steer between...blind, automaton-like fidelity to the text and adventurism which may signal virtue but may also generate chaos & unnecessary discontent amongst the governed.’ Fmr Justice of the High Court of Australia judicialpowerproject…

Is democratic power increasingly supplanted by the courts? See our new series of international views on the question of whether elected parliaments are better-placed than judges to guarantee rights. Intro here by @GregoireWebber & @pwyowell @judicialpwr judicialpowerproject…