The Sun Also Rises

Never thought I'd link to this tabloid rag, but the "trenchant" Richard Littlejohn has some good points to make about the UK Lord Chancellor's son's problems in The Sun.

The Lord Chancellor is an odd office, combining parts of the Attorney-General's, Chief Justice's and Vice-President's duties in the US context. It is therefore understandably a powerful one, with a major say in the consideration of new legislation. If the Lord Chancellor's son is addicted to cannabis, then, some questions have to be asked about his Government's moves to decriminalize it. Moreover, Littlejohn is right to ask why a prominent Law Officer did not alert the police to his son's use of a drug classified as so dangerous by the law. This is not a private matter. It is very, very public. It is therefore disgraceful that, at a time when the need for a UK version of the First Amendment is so obvious, the Government has sought to restrict free speech by importing a right to privacy that has been used to cover up corruption in France. Once again, the European Convention on Human Rights is the villain (I feel like a broken record here).