The US Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v Hodges – it may come out today, or next week – will […]

Jon Worth (surely Britain’s leading blogger on EU affairs) has the story that it’s now illegal to sell Marmite in Denmark. The Danish embassy has been anxious to stress that Marmite is not banned, but that is, I’m […]

Last month, when talking about the big Californian case about Proposition 8, I mentioned the unexploded bomb created by articles 2, 3 and 4 of Directive 2004/38 on the free movement rights of EU citizens and their families: they […]

This morning Charon QC spoke to me about Geert Wilders, and my view that his exclusion is unlawful – it was a good chance for me to put together all the strands of my analysis, as set out my […]

I’ve not heard any comment about this either from Liberty, or from David Davis. Why not? It’s a major free speech issue.

In my previous post on this I forgot another reason why the decision to exclude Geert Wilders from the UK breaches EU law. It’s arbitrary – in this sense of treating Wilders differently from UK nationals.

One of […]

As has been widely reported, the Home Office has decided to exclude the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders from the UK; here’s the letter it sent him notifying the decision. Many people will be troubled by this: there […]

I must admit to having some sympathy for the workers at Lindsey oil refinery who protested against the shipping in of Italian workers to carry out work there; and with those Labour MPs like Jon Cruddas who have […]

Before I end my blog holiday and come back from New York, I thought you might just be slightly interested in this US Supreme Court case showing that non-discriminatory inter-state commerce is protected in a way analogous to (thought […]

Earlier this week the ECJ gave its ruling in case C-438/05 International Transport Workers’ Federation and Finnish Seamen’s Union v Viking Line – often simply called the Viking Line case. It’s the case Lord Wedderburn was […]