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
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant