I have just started a new column, Bright on Politics, for the Jewish Chronicle. My first piece last week discussed Ed Balls and Israel. And this week I discussed why politicians turn to judges when they have lost their moral compass. Here’s the piece. I’m sure you’ll let me know what you think.
Blind faith of Brothers and others in law
When the political class loses faith in its ability to make moral judgments, what does it do? It calls in the lawyers. The present fashion for judge-led inquiries in the UK has given us the Leveson inquiry into the ethics of the press, and may yet lead to a similar examination of the ethics of banking.
On the moral issue of settlements in the Occupied Territories, Israel and the Trades Union Congress could not be further apart. But they have both resorted to calling in the lawyers to bolster their case.
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