Jonathan Sumption's Confessions — Rights, rhetoric and rationalism by UnHerd Confessions published on 2020-01-05T20:28:33Z Giles talks to historian and former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption about leaving academia behind for a career in law, the problem with human rights and the art of persuasion. Genre News & Politics Comment by KR An apparent weakness in Sumption's argument that the growth of human rights in English law is constraining the scope of collective political decision making is that that very framework of human rights was introduced into English law via an act of collective decision making - namely, the Human Rights Act 1998. 2020-01-08T22:17:29Z Comment by KR Giles Fraser mounts his hobby horse of "the public can't trust judges" half way through and proceeds to beat that horse to death. Becomes rather tiresome... Fraser comes across as a bit of a Brexit bore who doesn't have views on anything else. 2020-01-08T22:05:32Z
