John Jolliffe
John Jolliffe is a barrister in private practice, and a member of the Legal Advisory Council of the Free Speech Union. Like Sir James Eadie, he has experience of defending the unattractive actions of government clients.
Three years of the Free Speech Union
The fight against censorship goes on
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
The Captain doesn’t want to play
What happened to Boris as a child that he hates cricket so?
No right answers, only judgments
The state of the Dolan challenge to the Government’s Lockdown policies
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
