Brexit Articles
The ECHR – News from London and Strasbourg
I spoke at Stormont this week at the launch of the annual report of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. My theme was the need to look at the UK's membership of the European [...]
Sovereignty for Schools
I was given the honour of being a panellist (along with Baroness Butler-Sloss, Lord Young of Cookham and Professor Andrew Blick) at a Parliament Week schools event organised by Learn with the Lords and [...]
Lessons for Prevent
My report "Lessons for Prevent" was published on 16 July 2025. I was interviewed about the report at the time by Andrew Marr on LBC. As Independent Prevent Commissioner, the first (and interim) holder [...]
Parliament and the Rule of Law
The phrase "rule of law" has been used, on average, more than three times on every parliamentary sitting day over the past 10 years. But what does it mean? Has the UK anything to [...]
National Security and Human Rights
Many people are more learned than I am in European human rights law, and many others more thoroughly immersed in UK national security. But having spent significant time in each of those worlds over [...]
Writing a Constitution
I gave a lecture last night to the Statute Law Society on the subject of Writing a Constitution. Our constitution is sick (though its condition is chronic rather than acute); a written constitution is [...]