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This should be required viewing for all. Succinct, amusing yet accurate. We should have more of this and less of “The Life of Nigel” where the “jokes” are tired and straight out of “Love thy neighbour” (possibly one of the worst sitcoms of all time).
Maxwell Fyfe was the main author. He was a Scottish lawyer who became Home Secretary in Churchill’s post war govt.
He was the same Home Secretary who refused to commute Derek Bentley’s death sentence. He has a young man with learning difficulties who had been arrested by the police. His younger associate was on the roof with a gun. A policeman was with him. Bentley cried out ‘let him have it”. He maintained he meant-give him the gun. But the other guy, Craig, shot and killed the policeman. He was too young to hang but Bentley was sentenced to death and the sentence was carried out.
Fyfe also declared he would stamp out homosexuality and ordered police forces to be more active.
History is not about heroes and villains. It can be complicated.
The moral is we need principles set in law rather than relying on the opinion of politicians with an agenda.
Agreed
looking at it from a slightly different perspective
David Maxwell Fyfe, a Conservative, who was at one time or another Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor and a prosecuting counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, was lead draftee of the ECHR, and he clearly was not some “bleeding Heart liberal” or some “soft Touch”, which the ECHR is labelled as being a product of by the likes of Farage.
Thank you for this; I’d never seen it before
And for your very informative blog,
At almost 80 I knew little about your topics but now I’ve learned so much from you
Keep going! 🙂
Thanks, and I will keep going.