Pick-and-mix law?
‘What has international law ever done for us,’ asks the attorney general
"Rozenberg's endorsement of the UK's consistently legal idealist foreign policy now dubbed by the Foreign Secretary as "Progressive Realism" is an unneeded reminder that the UK has long ceased to be a Great Power, and fails to acknowledge that international law did not prevent Putin from invading Ukraine and has not been successful in stopping him either. As much as I hate to admit it, Thucydides' δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν still rules international law."
International law has helped give the United Kingdom peace, security and prosperity, the attorney general said yesterday. Delivering the annual security lecture at the Royal United Services Institute, Lord Hermer KC described as the government’s policy in international affairs as one of progressive realism.
This policy, he said, combined a pragmatic app…
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