The Political Lawyer
George Peretz KCThoughts on UK and EU law, politics and government and how they all relate to each other. The law will mainly be from my practice areas (regulation; public law; trade and EU-related): the politics will be broadly Labour.
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Towards Electoral Reform
[W]e should move to a system of proportional representation for the election of the Commons. … Every person and every place will only be equal when every vote is equal. Under the present system, some people and places are more equal than...
Different views of free speech: my talk to the Free Speech Union
Context: I was invited by the FSU, along with representatives of the other main parties’ legal societies, to give a brief talk at the FSU annual drinks on 10 July. The Lib Dems did not attend, and the other speakers were Harry Gillow1 of th...
Your lawyers would like a word! Andy Burnham’s legal in-tray
I wrote an article for Labour List on some of the issues Andy Burnham will need to deal with.
https://labourlist.org/2026/07/andy-burnhams-legal-in-tray/
WHY TONY BLAIR IS WRONG ABOUT THE EU
Tony Blair’s recent essay “The Labour Party is playing with fire over its future and the future of the country” made a number of arguments about the policy of the Labour government and other policies proposed from within the Labour party wh...
China: the Total Perspective Vortex
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin Tragula — for that was his name — was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And she wou...
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Barrister, practising in the smoking ruins of EU law as well as public and regulatory law. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers.
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