Jeff Blackett

His Honour Jeff Blackett OBE, was Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces between 2004 and 2020

The US and Israel have beaten Iran

Anyone who has been following the developments in the Middle East through the eyes of the BBC and Sky News would be forgiven for thinking that the United States and Israel have suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Iranian regime. Driven by an unshakeable hatred of Donald Trump, ‘experts’ from legal professors

International law is not a suicide pact

There is a certain type of British parliamentarian for whom the world is not a complex web of shifting allegiances and existential threats, but a neatly ruled jurisdictional straightjacket for the West. To hear Emily Thornberry or the leadership of the Green Party tell it, the recent US and Israeli operations against the Iranian regime