On the new Guardian Site, Caroline Lucas (a Green MEP, if I correctly recall) posts on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
This is my comment:
This is a potentially horrendous bill which gets not nearly enough coverage.
It should be front page news.
I suspect that the reason why it isn’t is that, due to clever politicing, it’s been given a ’soporifically boring’ name (to borrow a phrase from John Spencer QC.
On ‘Law in Action’ on Radio 4 this tuesday, it was put to Professor John Spencer QC that the bill would undermine the Magna Carta. He was asked if he agreed with that interpretation. He replied:
‘Absolutely not! It goes far beyond that.’
On this page there are links to (the few) newspaper articles, to legal resources, and to other websites:
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Holy crap – I was about to put a comment in here pointing out that she has written a piece for the Save Parliament site, which is now up on the opinions page. However, I was completely sidetracked (well not completely) by the fact that her “comment is free” article has a link to the site at the bottom. Nice