Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

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The High Court in London had recently rejected a similar case — brought by Remainer activist Gina Miller — and two hours after Maugham's victory chose to give its reasons for doing so. Hoffman was also Chairman and Director (unpaid) of Amnesty International Charity Ltd, a satellite of AI. His new “book”, Bringing Down Goliath, is a tedious, almost unreadable combination of Pooterisms , delusions of grandeur, and descriptions of his tweeting — intermixed with rambling thoughts. Like many convinced of their own righteousness, Maugham arrives at a seemingly hypocritical conclusion by fanatical sincerity. Its rhetoric would be dangerous in the hands of a competent author, but even allowing for Maugham’s fumbling fingers, the ideas espoused in this book should worry anyone who cares to maintain the rule of law in the United Kingdom.

As much as it pains me to say it, I think that Maugham has a point, though not in the way he intends.Mr Maugham claimed that the bad review of Bringing Down Goliath, which explores a series of high-profile cases brought against the Government by his governance watchdog the Good Law Project, was because of where The Times “stands in relation to my politics”. Big plans are underway, involving tech platforms, shareable legal advice, and “ready-made legal structures” to provide “new ways for communities to live and be”. Eddie Jones has warned England that Marcus Smith is not a full back — and that the way to improve their attacking game is to give him playing time at fly half. Maugham wants a judiciary which speaks not with many voices (which, of course, is the definition of diversity) but rather “a single voice”, presumably one which is in perfect concord with him. The Covid inquiry was told this week that Johnson spent over a week at the government retreat of Chevening in mid-February 2020.

Indeed, it is largely due to this episode that anyone at all has heard of this preposterous individual.These bumptious members of the thrush family are now arriving in Britain from Scandinavia and further afield. Never — ever — to be deterred, Maugham insists that this failure was only at “a deeply technical level”, now a droll euphemism for a forensic spanking.