I booked a pub quiz recently by phone, turned up and the booking was nowhere to be found. Bar staff asked around. Answer: “oh, you spoke to the chef but she was busy making pies and forgot to note your booking”. Never been less annoyed. Maybe the perfect excuse.

They do a lot of inquest JRs involving article 2 (though by no means all), and I’ve often thought it looked in those cases like they thought it would be useful to have a backup judge with paracetamol and a cool damp cloth.

If we want to rebuild the defences against authoritarianism (as we should) we'd be better off using the instruments we already have.

Dismantling Henry VIII powers, getting dirty money out of elections, even changing the electoral system could all be done more easily than writing a new constitution.

I expect Glasman would, if his liberty or future security were placed at risk, want and be able to benefit from excellent lawyers. But that is plainly not a position he thinks everyone should be in.

It's also a bit of a grey area on what exactly was wrong, isn't it - the error of law was a failure to take into account plainly relevant considerations. That is less a matter of 'getting the law right' and more a matter or giving the proper thought to the issue to the standard the law requires.

Ideology is political. Value is secret second thing.

There's a 'no such thing as objective morality' and maybe 'religion is silly' to 'all rules need to be capable of statement without value judgments' pipeline that makes the free speech and so many other arguments unbearably untethered from its actual substance.

Whether this, in fact, helped the cause is a separate questions to whether it is politically and socially legitimate to include this as terrorism in the same class of activity as, say, indescrimiante slaughter of civilians. And to employ the same legal tools in response.

If that's the view fine. I am well aware that was a view at the time. Same with South African anti-apartheid groups. But the Suffragettes are honoured too - we give plenty of credit to Emmeline "The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics" Pankhurst.

Seconding Amy's videos, they are great. I enjoy Yoga with Kassandra on youtube too, very beginner friendly!

The open texture and reliance on discretion in the definition of terrorism is and always has been a stain on the rule of law.