Reproduced below is my latest blog for Conservative Home.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has just passed one of those legal rulings which now occur so often that you become numb to it.
From the BBC:
The alleged leader of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb targets in north-west England has won his appeal against deportation.
Shortly before last week’s unexpected referendum decision in Ireland, a journalist in the Scotsman explained why the Irish had chosen to reject the Lisbon Treaty despite the benefits the EU have showered on their country in recent years. He wrote:
‘The anti-EU lobby … have plastered Ireland with posters warning that the treaty will force Ireland to surrender its sovereignty on moral, military and financial matters. One conjures up the memory of Ireland's patriot dead from the 1919-21 war of independence from Britain. "They died for your freedom. Don't throw it all away. Vote no," it reads.’
