David Wolfson
@DXW_KC
Commercial barrister, King's Counsel @OneEssexCourt • Conservative peer & shadow Attorney General (as Lord Wolfson of Tredegar) @UKHouseofLords • Chair FRA @FA
Dear @AshleyTaborKing, The more I listen to the James O’Brien show from Tuesday 22 July, the worse it sounds. And the fact that your producers then promoted a clip of that segment on LBC’s official social media channels the same day, before quietly deleting it, makes it all the…
This is disgraceful from @mrjamesob – platforming a modern blood libel against Jews live on national radio. There’s no such thing as “Shabbat school”. No Jewish child in the UK is taught that vile, racist nonsense. This is a stain on @LBC and its producers.
How to lose an argument in court⬇️ Counsel: there are lots of examples of [insert issue] Judge: can you give me one example? Counsel: [bluster, blah, I’ll send a note next week]
Spot on.
I call bullshit. You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on. But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was…
As the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege (selectively quoted by @ZiaYusufUK) said in the very first sentence “The privilege of freedom of speech in Parliament places a corresponding duty on every member to use the freedom responsibly". Article 9 of the Bill of Rights…
Jenrick went to ground for 30 hours and all he could muster was the mother of all lies. He claims “Parliamentary privilege is not unlimited, I was bound by the Official Secrets Act”. This is a lie. Parliamentary privilege is absolute. In fact it exists for situations exactly…
It often seems that @BBCNews has a political wing.
This is Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, on a staff call about the Gaza documentary which broke impartiality rules. Incredibly, she doesn’t seem to know that BOTH the armed wing and the political wing are deemed terrorist organisations by our government.
The (interesting) conversation on @doubjeopardypod continues this week - from 24:20 x.com/doubjeopardypo…
Professor Milanovic disagrees with my analysis. I’ll leave it to listeners to judge both the legal and real-world cogency of his arguments, although his repeated ad hominem comments are regrettable. In law, as on the football pitch, you should play the ball, and not the player.
26 former UK diplomats. 164 words. None of them is “hostages”.
May I suggest: 1 You undertake some basic research on why I resigned from the Johnson government. 2 You post an apology, which I will of course accept.
Pathetic. Not a word during the chaos of May's tenure or the farcical Johnson/Truss/Sunak regimes. Go and have a lie down dear.
Professor Milanovic disagrees with my analysis. I’ll leave it to listeners to judge both the legal and real-world cogency of his arguments, although his repeated ad hominem comments are regrettable. In law, as on the football pitch, you should play the ball, and not the player.
Bombing Iran: Self-Defence or a Lawless Attack? @KenMacdonaldKC and @timowenkc are joined by Professor Marko Milanovic to explore the legality of the recent Israeli and U.S. military actions against Iranian nuclear facilities. Listen here: lnkd.in/e5_hsW3w
This government is no more. It has ceased to be. Bereft of life, it now rests in peace. Its political processes are now history. This is an ex-government.
The government has effectively abandoned its flagship welfare reform - the overhaul of PIP disability benefits - entirely After so much political pain, all the arguments that this was a moral and economic necessity, it's gone. Just like that The only conclusion you can reach is…
This is grotesque. Glorifying violence against Jews isn’t edgy. The West is playing with fire if we allow this sort of behaviour to go unchecked. The cultural establishment needs to wake up to the fact this isn’t protest, it’s incitement. (1/2)
In all my years skirting the fringes of right-wing groups, I’ve never once been at a meeting or rally where a crowd openly chanted death to anyone, let alone thousands screaming it in unison.
A powerful critique of the @attorneygeneral’s reported advice, drawing out the significance in terms of the cession of the Chagos to Mauritius. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/th…
A 🧵on some legal issues arising out of the US strike on Iran’s nuclear installations: ⬇️ 1 The inherent right to use force in the face of an imminent attack from a hostile nation is well-established in international law and for good reason: a country cannot be…
If you will the ends without willing the means, you didn’t really desire the ends. @Keir_Starmer
By targeting Iran’s nuclear sites, the US has taken decisive action against a regime that fuels global terror and directly threatens the UK. Iranian operatives have plotted murders and attacks on British soil. We should stand firmly with the US and Israel.