Ivan Hare QC
Ivan is a member of Blackstone Chambers. He specialises in Public Law and appears in a wide range of judicial review cases.
Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
How the DVSA is driving young people mad
Driving tests should be much more accessible than they are
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars