Poor old Sajid Javid. While a huge queue of Tory activists were waiting to hear from Boris Johnson, there were empty seats in the main hall as the Home Secretary gave his speech. Things went from bad to worse for Sajid when he tripped over his words:
‘We will fight hope… hate… fight against hate, with hope’
"We will fight hope… hate… fight against hate, with hope" – Home Secretary Sajid Javid has made a faux pas at the Conservative Party Conference.
Most law students in the English-speaking world will have come across R v Dudley and Stephens, from 1884, which established the precedent that necessity is not a defence for murder. The case has a particular grisly attraction, as the defendants were sailors who had resorted to cannibalism after being cast adrift on a lifeboat for
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