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Conor Gearty

On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and Human Rights by Conor Gearty

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April 2017, no. 390
John Eldridge reviews 'On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and Human Rights' by Conor Gearty

Although easy to miss amid the commotion of Brexit, Britain’s Human Rights Act (1998) is locked in a fight for its life. Besieged by a hostile press and beholden to a government that has pledged its repeal and replacement, its days are almost certainly numbered. It is against this fraught backdrop that Conor Gearty’s On Fantasy Island: Britain, Euro ...