George Beglan: A State that governs by poll is not showing 'democratic responsiveness' but weakness

George Beglan: A State that governs by poll is not showing 'democratic responsiveness' but weakness

George Beglan holds an LLM (Distinction) from Durham and read Jurisprudence at Oxford; he has published on law reform in the Cambridge Law Review The abolition of non-crime hate incidents by a Labour government, reversing a policy introduced by a Conservative one, has been received as a civil liberties victory. It is worth asking whether it is anything of the sort. The NCHI regime was introduced during the peak years of institutional progressivi…