Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 31 December 2008
We, The Jury
I do not hold with the cause of those who have been acquitted by a jury because their concerns about the environment were held to be legitimate. But the right of juries to do this sort of thing is a key democratic freedom. The case for juries (and magistrates) is the case for Parliament and for local councils. And any argument against juries (or magistrates) is an argument against Parliament and against local councils. The reverse also holds, in either case.
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