Persuasive critique of the Government's Coronavirus regulations by @RobertCraig3 https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/04/06/lockdown-a-response-to-professor-king-robert-craig/

This is a reply to @jeff_a_king posts at the august @ukcla blog https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2020/04/02/jeff-king-the-lockdown-is-lawful-part-ii/

Curious that @ukcla is only publishing pro-government posts on this and not critiques

The stated goal of @ukcla is to ‘encourage and promote the advancement of knowledge relating to [UK] constitutional law (broadly defined) and study of constitutions generally’

So why are any critical posts about the government's use of law in this emergency only on other blogs?

I have emailed @ukcla offering to write a critique for their blog of the Coronavirus Regulations from a constitutional law perspective, to counter the two pro posts they have published

Let's see what they say

For it would be a serious matter for concern if, at a time like this, an organisation like @ukcla only published posts in favour of the government's position on constitutional questions, and did not publish any critiques

The @ukcla have refused my offer of a post critical of the Coronavirus regulations - even though they have published two posts in defence of their constitutional validity

The blog, I am told, is "full for this week"

This is all very odd

In thirteen years of blogging, I have never known a blog have capacity issues

Strange times

My concern here with @ukcla is *not* that they are "pro-government" (they are certainly not) but that they are not ensuring that all sides of a constitutional issue are properly aired when those sides should be aired

Constitutional scrutiny is important, even in an emergency

By only publishing posts in favour of the constitutional validity of the Coronavirus Regulations (which have had no parliamentary vote and restrict fundamental freedoms), I believe @ukcla are not showing the true breadth of the current constitutional concerns

But I will leave this matter for now, as (thankfully) the required debate is now taking place on other blogs and sites

Please see the links in this important thread, for the various viewpoints https://twitter.com/bricksilk/status/1247193558479765505