Geoffrey Robertson
Mr Gove, Here Is Our Statute of Liberty
The European Convention is no longer fit for purpose. It is time for the Lord Chancellor to enshrine our freedoms in British law
A British Bill Of Rights
Geoffrey Robertson drafts a Statute of Liberty
Put British Jihadis on Trial in British Courts
We owe it to the world to prosecute home-grown war criminals of Islamic State here — not to deny them entry and their victims justice
We Can Have a Free Press and Justice Too
The real threat to liberty is not Leveson but the Coalition’s own Defamation Bill—yet it is not too late to make a sensible amendment
A Free Press Means to Publish and be Damned
Our most cherished liberty is up for grabs at the Leveson inquiry, but it cannot be entrusted to a new tribunal to muzzle newspapers
Why We Need a British Bill of Rights
The weasel words of the European Convention are undermining our ancient liberties. David Cameron is right to demand reform
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics