What are we going to do about human rights?

In my latest column for Standpoint magazine, I take a pretty dim view of Lord Hoffmann's belated discovery that the European Court of Human Rights "lacks constitutional legitimacy". But I believe he is right to suggest that where a national court has properly taken account of Strasbourg rulings, the European Court should be slow to interfere.

There's just room to note that neither of the main political parties has anything very sensible to say on the subject.

Posted at April 30, 2009 04:25 PM