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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
