The asylum seekers on the Poland-Belarus border are not aggressors: they are desperate pawns in a disgusting political struggleOne thought is a constant in my head: “I have kids at home, I cannot go to jail, I cannot go to jail.” The politics are beyond my reach or that of the victims on the Poland-Belarus border. It involves outgoing German chancellor, Angela Merkel, getting through to Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus. It’s ironic that this border has more than 50 media crews gathered, yet Poland is the only place in the EU where journalists cannot freely report.Meanwhile, the harsh north European winter is closing in and my fingers are freezing in the dark snowy nights. Continue reading.........

Judicial review provides justice for ordinary citizens. It must be protected from a populist fervour that would damage BritainGina Miller is a transparency campaigner who took legal action to prevent Boris Johnson proroguing parliamentThere is one thing that Boris Johnson and I actually agree on, and it is that courts and judges should never be used to “conduct politics by another means”, as he said in his election manifesto and again in a 2020 speech. But what Johnson proposed on Monday with his interpretation bill – which would make it possible for the government to strike out findings from judicial reviews that he and his ministers disagree with – would make our courts overtly and dangerously political.A judicial review allows judges to examine the lawfulness of an action taken by a public body, they are often initiated by citizens or civil society groups to hold government to account. The cases that I brought against Johnson’s and Theresa May’s governments, challenging their right to make policy without parliamentary approval, and further to prorogue parliament, were cited as his excuse for asserting “parliamentary sovereignty” over “an unelected judiciary”.Gina Miller is a businesswoman and transparency campaigner who took legal action to prevent Boris Johnson proroguing parliament Continue reading.........

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Hong Kong’s strict quarantine policy is “more politics than science”, according to former InvestHK director general Mike Rowse, who has thrown his hat into the ring for this month’s Legislative Council election.Rowse also said he “felt sorry” for his successor in charge of the government department tasked with convincing foreign companies that Hong Kong was still a “go-to” place for business, with more than 50 countries now classified as high risk under local Covid-19 travel rules, as the…......