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  • Introduction
    • Preface
    • Chapter 1
  • The Fantasies
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 8
  • The Facts
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
  • The Future
    • Chapter 12
    • Chapter 13
  • Conclusion
    • Chapter 14

Monthly Archives: October 2016

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Conclusion: Defend the Human Rights Act!

Monday, 31st October 2016 Site Admin Leave a comment


It is time as we come to our conclusion to draw the various threads of this book together. Why does the Human Rights Act matter so much? Read more in Chapter 14.

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Future: British Values – Shrinking into (Little) England

Sunday, 23rd October 2016 Site Admin Leave a comment

With ever-increasing hostility to the Human Rights Act the confident outward-looking British face retreats into an inward-looking English one, seeking as it does so to compensate for decline with tighter control over its (much-reduced) backyard. Read more in Chapter 13.

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Future: Repeal – How Can We Tell?

Tuesday, 18th October 2016 Site Admin Leave a comment

To what extent are the changes already achieved by the Human Rights Act now embedded in our law, and not reliant on the continued survival of the Act for their existence? Read more in Chapter 12.

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Fact: Telling Us Who We Are

Wednesday, 12th October 2016 Conor Gearty Leave a comment


There is a strong dose of late 1940s exceptionalism still evident in British political culture. It may yet cause the country to leave the Council of Europe, opting out completely from the European Convention. Read more in Chapter 11.

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Fact: Making a Difference

Friday, 7th October 2016 Conor Gearty Leave a comment

One of the most interesting features of the Human Rights Act when you get to grips with it is how its protection extends in more important ways to every one of us. Read more in Chapter 10.

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