Saturday, 24 February 2024

Silliest argument of the day....


"Even in a parallel universe, where 15 is the age of criminal responsibility... " - Zoe Williams in the Guardian


The age of criminal responsibility is 10.


I'm not a fan of making people stateless but the fate of Ms Begum is not keeping me awake at night


Her larger point is that the decision itself makes people with one or more non-UK parents able to have their citizenship stripped whilst us indigenous people have more rights.  Perhaps... but when you've been living for years in Syria fighting for an Islamic State... I believe the court said one of the reasons Begum was not given prior warning was to stop her returning as it is very hard to make people who live in the UK stateless...


175 people have been deprived of British Citizenship on National Security grounds since 2006 see here


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