Declaratory Power

This was sent to the papers on Monday. Do please let me know if it has been published anywhere:

20 years on, and Fallujah still suffers from the cancers and birth defects that were imposed on it, yet Britain is sending depleted uranium to Ukraine. The difference between depleted uranium and radiological weapons, such as polonium-210, would strike most people as sophistic. If the Minister of State for Defence, Baroness Goldie, was in Scotland during any part of this decision-making process, then the High Court of Justiciary ought to exercise its declaratory power that this was so clearly comparable to an existing crime as to constitute a criminal act.

David Lindsay, Lanchester, Independent parliamentary candidate, 2019 and 2024

Councillor James Giles, Leader of the Kingston Independent Residents Group, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Paul Knaggs, Chesterfield, Founder and Editor of Labour Heartlands, British Army combat veteran

Marie Macfarlane, Glasgow

Dr Yvonne Ridley, Jedburgh, author and journalist

Audrey White, Liverpool