Five Ideas to Fight For

Remembering Anthony Lester

Aug 10, 2020

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Anthony Lester QC, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, died at the weekend, aged 84. He was a human rights lawyer before anyone understood what that term even meant.

Here is an interview I recorded with Anthony at Jewish Book Week on 1 March 2017. We discussed his personal memoir, Five Ideas to Fight For (Oneworld Publications, 2016).

For reasons I explain at the…

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