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
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism