I have set out the very questionable international law the UK government has prayed in aid for its monstrous give away of Chagos. The government failed to read the clear opt outs from International Court of Justice jurisdiction for defence and Commonwealth matters, and the opt out for defence from UN law of Sea.
Now we have the government inability to see that Iran is a constant and worrying threat to us, and particularly alarming that she might soon develop nuclear weapons. There is a good case in international law for US action.
What is angering so many of us is this further legal essay in two tier justice. Iran murders its own citizens, removes human rights from women, kills people in hospitals, attacks civilian targets abroad, funds and trains terrorist groups in several countries. So why does Starmer’s famous international law never stop them? What is the point of international law in these matters if Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and others break it when they choose?
International law is important to control people and goods moving across borders. Between sovereign states,affairs are controlled by International Treaty. If one of the parties breaks the Treaty there is no police force, army and prisons to enforce against the offending government.
The PM needs to ask the Attorney General to improve his legal advice and to fit it into international politics.The question to ask about the US action is not is it legal but will it work? It needs Iranian domestic regime change to make it a success.
March 2, 2026
……..and Iran has repeated.y taken our citizens hostage!
March 2, 2026
Plus they have funded and encouraged many terrorist attacks on the UK.
International law is indeed a “tyranny and folly”.
But then so often is the law in general. The absurd attempts by the DPP to invent and even appeal for a blasphemy law that of burning a book. Then we have Birmingham bankrupted by judges/ not markets deciding what work of equal value is thanks to Labours insane equalities act. An act actually added to by the Con-Socialists and not abolished. How are out RAF getting on without those useless white male pilots? Might it not be a better outcome all round if people are chosen on merit?
The total insanity of the new banter law (a vast attack on free speech and on business owners)!
March 2, 2026
Agreed John. Add this to Sir John’s list of Iran’s faults in Para 3.
I remain perplexed why so many of the UK population support Palestinians and scream vitriol at Israel (who have been subject to repeat terrorist attacks and killings for decades) yet when these UK people are asked about Iran’s actions they see little to protest about.
March 2, 2026
I agree with your sentiments but many people wonder about whether the US and Israel have robust justification for the attacks. They remember how apparently vital it was to invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, and see parallels today.
March 2, 2026
MPC – the contradiction and who are they to judge. The UN Council has enacted may resolutions against Iran stating that ‘the world’s collective judgement’ is that the country(Iran) posed a threat, the UN News reported this.
The UN stating that could be seen as the justification for moves by anyone against Iran
March 2, 2026
The Attorney General has made it clear he will do everything to embarrass the British government such as representing the IRA, chasing military personnel on spurious human rights charges. No doubt his fingerprints were all over the Gibraltar sellout. What next, the Falklands.
We must ask ourselves why has 2TK, the master of U turns chosen this particular hill to die on.
( words left out Ed) The whole thing is being driven by a small group of HR lawyers working forgot sides and it stinks.
March 2, 2026
@Ian Wragg – it is clear that ‘The Attorney General’ doesn’t work for the UK or its Parliament, he is there to support 2TK and his destruction mission. When will Parliament those that chose this anti-British cabal to run the country wake up!
March 2, 2026
Good Morning,
Law is a particularly apposite topic today; Consider:
The law of God is interpreted by theologians,
The Law of man is interpreted by lawyers.
When there is confliction between the two, we see today the outcome.
March 2, 2026
Usually interpreted by judges/lawyer in the interests of Lawyers rather than those of the users of the court system. Lawyers as a group tend to have many common views like the more litigation the better. Plus we have the use of paid for “experts” and end up with the absurd conviction of the two cot death person and the absurd 15 convictions of Lucy Letby. Let alone then deciding refuse collection is of equal value to office admin work or dinner “ladies”.
The idea of a single judge (who may have all sorts of personal biases, religious beliefs, political bias, history perhaps of burglary, mugging, sexual attacks in their family etc. deciding things alone is appalling. They will not and probably cannot in general put to one side their views!
March 2, 2026
The law of God is written in the heart. It’s called the conscience.
People may try to justify their evil actions on religious grounds, but in their heart they still know it’s wrong.
March 2, 2026
Sometimes a law of commonsense is needed but how to frame that into rules to live by?
March 2, 2026
There is no way a Persian regime run by religious fanatics should have nuclear weapons. The question is, will bombing the leadership achieve the desired change of government?
Throughout history everyone has had trouble with the arrogance of the Persians. Alexander the Great had to conquer them. So did the Romans. So did we – indeed, British Petroleum (BP) was born to exploit Persian oil
The Americans and the Israelis limited their attack to Iran itself. What’s left of the regime has retaliated by launching missiles at any country that hosts American, French or British military bases.
Well, so be it. The war will be good for the price of gold and silver.
March 2, 2026
I believe that by convention the legal advice the Attorney General gives the government is never disclosed ? If so this provides perfect cover for Hermer to promote his own views with no way they can be checked or challenged.
Reply It is not published in full but governments often have to state their case to try to persuade the public and of course at times have to defend their legal judgement in court
March 2, 2026
Surely international law outlaws nuclear proliferation? In the Liberal top trump interpretation of international law where does blowing up a country’s nuclear arsenal come in relation to being able to build one?
International law must come second to individual interest.
China and India pollute, Russia invades and Pakistan subjugates.
Where are the worthies protesting these events?
March 2, 2026
There is no international democratic government, therefore there is no real international law.
Decent treatment of prisoners of war came about when Western countries, even though sometimes in conflict, accepted that prisoners of war should be treated with decency. Since then, we have some of the obvious evil people beheading prisoners of war, and with such adversaries we need to not be naïve.
A lot of international treaties would not stand if the respective populations had proper democratic control over what was agreed.
Even now we have bad deals like the badly named UK/India Trade deal which would never get signed if the British population had sight of the mass import of Indian national workers with massive tax perks to undercut locals which it entails.
As for international lawyers that are the uber apparatchiks, contributing nothing to net world good. Apparatchiks always look after each other, and think highly of themselves, they are a large part of the problems we face and not part of the solution.
And the way our ruling classes in Europe and the UK have socially engineered our population to have large segments which want to fight each other and the historic core population, is madness. The way they have had lots of mad negotiations with the rest of the world showing how wibbly wobbly and weak we are, its bad very bad.
March 2, 2026
The PM is a complete embarrassment to this country a very poor act with little ability to think and see the big picture
March 2, 2026
You ask, Lord John, “What is the point of international law in these matters if Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and others break it when they choose?”
Surely there’s a country you missed out there. It’s been all over the news, you must have noticed. Or was it buried among the ‘others’?
March 2, 2026
It’s particularly annoying when watching guests on news programs insist that international law has priority over national concerns. To those on the left trying to support the PM in his quest to tie us into the effects of globalist organisations, both unelected and unrepresentative, this seems to be a religion to them.
I’ve given up trusting anything that comes out of the UN – their efforts have failed miserably to bring peace or to save children, yet they demand and spend far too much of our money for what they achieve.
International treaties are a tool of globalists to tie our hands, not for peace, but to take us ever more in the direction of a single world government – we should oppose this with all of our strength, especially while there is so much reckless insanity in the world.
March 2, 2026
The PM is not going to ask the Attorney General to review his opinion.
The simple truth is that the present opinion is the preferred opinion of both Starmer and Hermer.
Doughty Street Chambers and Matrix Chambers have a grievance agenda that does not foster right wing opinion or a national view.
March 2, 2026
2TK says we will join the actions against Iran in a ‘defensive’ capacity. So is it defensive to bomb a missile launching site that is sending missiles into the British base in Cyprus? He can get his lawyer mates together to discuss it.
March 2, 2026
Sir John you are labouring under the illusion that Starmer’s Gang is on the side of Britain, the west in general and democratic freedom. It is not. It hates all of these and Britain in particular. It is on the side of its allies, the Islamists. The Gang’s aims for Britain are entirely destructive, born of hatred. Trump has acted more strongly in the British national interest than Starmer’s Gang. Just imagine if Starmer’s Gang had a Democrat in the Whitehouse.
Gibraltar will be given away next and then the Falklands together with another enormous reparations package as in the case of Chagos.
There is no way we can get rid of Starmer’s Gang. As you know, the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 automatically dissolves parliament in 2029, removing all MPs, but leaves the government in office. Just imagine Starmer’s Gang in office and a total absence of scrutiny, let alone opposition, in parliament. Starmer’s Gang will not be able resist the temptation to postpone the expected general election and we will not be able to prevent him.
Reply There is no evidence to suppose Labour will try to prevent an election.Many in Parliament and people would demand one.