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Should Ian Blair resign?: published on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:58; I have not liked the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair since one of my students of many years ago – a police officer who received the George Medal for bravery in confronting an IRA gang in London in 1975 – felt compelled publicly to contradict the Commissioner’s account of his (allegedly central) role during the same incident. If Sir Ian could be so casual about the truth in ... [read more]
Luck & The Irish.: published on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:15; If Ireland were ever to spend some of its recently acquired vast fortune on a ‘Museum of National Treasures’, Roy Foster should be asked to open it. This occasionally angry, sometimes whimsical and frequently hilarious account of the Republic of Ireland’s ascent from gombeen-land to the happiest place on earth (according to the Economist in 2004: ‘Gratifyingly for many Irish people, the UK ... [read more]
A Comment on The Visit of President Kagame to The Centre For The Study Of Human Rights: published on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:04; The President of Rwanda Paul Kagame is my my first guest at LSE this term. His schedule includes an address to the centre on development, climate change and human rights. There has been some controversy around the visit. Some people are critical saying he has committed human rights violations. Why have I invited him to speak at my centre? The first point to note is that the President has ... [read more]
Can Animals Have Human Rights?: published on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:58; The question seems absurd until you realise that it is an ill-conceived way of putting a deeper point that is harder to refute: what makes human beings so special that they – and they alone among the animals – warrant the protection that flows from being entitled to rights? The usual stock answers to this are not as satisfactory as maybe once they were. First we used to say that humans as ... [read more]
Separating Libertarianism and Political Liberty: published on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:20; I wrote an article in the Guardian on Friday arguing that libertarianism and political liberty needed to be kept separate in our minds, and that civil libertarians should be prepared to engage more in discussion than they do about the relative merits of various suggestions for change that affect the first while being extremely careful about any new laws or practices that threaten the second. ... [read more]

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On the same side?: published on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:00; Conor Gearty: Humans & Habitats: Does the idea of human rights help or hinder the environmental movement? ... [read more]
From Mill to Machiavelli: published on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:00; Conor Gearty: In the case of pre-charge detention, Gordon Brown's supposed commitment to liberty seems to have been trumped by political opportunism ... [read more]
Judges rule OK: published on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:00; Conor Gearty: Today's judgment on control orders is a welcome step on the road to the normalisation of anti-terrorism law. ... [read more]
Taking liberties: published on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:30; Conor Gearty: Today's survey reveals that British people are willing to swap rights for security - which only underlines why civil libertarians must be robust. ... [read more]

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