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Joshua thanks as ever. Absolutely no reflection whatever on you BUT I am singularly unimpressed by what I have read ( I agree I have yet to listen).

What he has said about curbing the abuse of court access through money for the VERY rich to avoid exposure for corruption is attractive, as I agree should it ever come to anything.

This is of all fairly recent regimes the one most readily affronted when the courts INTERPRET the law in ways serving RIGHTLY to frustrate the latest whim and partisan resolve to run roughshod over the rule of law and constitutional propriety as with of course the illegal prorogation of Parliament in order to avoid troublesome Parliamentary scrutiny and facilitate the then PM’s personal and selfish agenda.

Like many another I view the Human Rights Act as it stands as THE effective underpinning and pivot of any and every nation’s commitment to the rule of law and due process.

It was Blair who declared in fundamental and shameful error after the July 2005 tube and bus bombings that the rules of the game had changed (as in being diluted for certain categories of alleged offenders). That must never be but I see not the slightest nod in the direction of equality of treatment for all in anything the current office holder had said.

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