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I don't say we should attack Iran & I don't say we shouldn't. But I do say this: whether we do attack or not should be nothing - nothing whatsoever, to even the tiniest degree - to do with lawyers or even law.

If a country can't go to war without the say-so of a foreign court or other authority, it cannot in any meaningful sense claim to be sovereign.

I'm not sure how many times I need to repeat this before people start believing me but I'll have another go: I'm not a libertarian. I have never been a libertarian. I have never claimed to be a libertarian.

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 NEW: Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, says that Supreme Leader Khamenei ‘can no longer be allowed to exist’ after an Israeli hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack [Al Arabiya English]

Obviously no magazines or websites exist any more that rate women on their physical attractiveness alone - the world's clearly very different now.

I find it almost incomprehensible that anyone could take a different view. Who, in all seriousness, believes that an attack's "legality" has any relevance to whether the UK should attack another country or not?

You didn't need to make it up. It was literally one of the points raised when the deal was signed.

"I can only imagine that many folk think there is some Bible passage or other that goes something like "And the LORD breathes his spirit upon the zygote in the womb, and the soul enters unto it, and the man is formed". But there isn't any such passage."

In the video game Mediaeval II: Total War the player's strategy can be compromised by the Pope forbidding fighting with other Catholics - reminding us that Mediaeval lords were notionally under the authority of the Pope. Lord Hermer reminds me of that, like a Papal legate.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 31% (+1) LAB: 23% (-1) CON: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (-1) GRN: 11% (=) Via Find Out Now, 18 Jun. Changes w/ 11 Jun.

International law's nothing more than politeness. Breaking it is like being rude to another country. Nothing more. Of course, if you're rude to other people that can have consequences & it can be worth knowing the etiquette. But it isn't true *law* in the ethically binding sense.

But what if the rights & dignities women demand are to be separated from trans people & the "terms" trans women require to regard themselves as accepted are to *not* be separated from women? Sometimes in life a consensus isn't available. Sometimes we must choose whom to side with

What's the difference in term between the sentence Lucy Connolly got & the length of sentence she would have got if the court had concluded that she was responsible for causing the riots?