Security Articles
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 [...]
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 [...]
Investigatory Powers Act Review
My independent Investigatory Powers Act review was announced on 17 January. I am conducting the review together with a small strap-cleared team comprising Natasha Barnes, barrister at 1 Crown Office Row John Davies, [...]
National Security and the Law
"National Security and the Law" was the subject of this year's Birkenhead Lecture. It contains a description and assessment of the current state of our law on counter-terrorism, hostile state activity and surveillance - [...]
Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill
This Bill, prompted by recent atrocities in Fishmongers' Hall and Streatham, has been introduced with the objective - which I support - of ensuring that terrorist offenders with determinate sentences are not automatically released before [...]
Taming the Wild West
I gave a lecture last night at Clifford Chance in London on "Taming the Wild West: Government and the Internet". It touches on a number of currently contested areas of law and policy ranging from [...]
Extremism and the Law
Extremism and the Law was the subject of my Middle Temple Treasurer's Lecture on Monday evening. It was attended by a wonderfully diverse crowd, ranging from Supreme Court Justices to East London sixth-formers who had [...]