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Sir David Davis: Loughinisland case proves the freedom of the press must be protected
Sir David Davis is a strong campaigner for protecting the freedom of the press. The Loughinisland case proves this. As published in PoliticsHome: Police conduct towards investigative journalists seeking to expose the truth of what happened at the Loughinisland massacare was heavy handed and unlawful; it is important that press freedoms are protected, writes Sir […]
Sir David Davis writes for The Sunday Times on the need for a written UK constitution
As published in The Sunday Times: Last month the Supreme Court surprised us all. There have been few statements in modern politics that have had the impact of the president of the Supreme Court’s, not least because of the dispassionate way in which Lady Hale put her decision. Yet while that decision was surprising and […]
Sir David Davis writes in The Guardian about the threat of live facial recognition to individual privacy
The pernicious growth of the surveillance state continues with the imminent rollout of live facial recognition cameras across Britain. That is why this week I signed a statement, alongside a cross-party group of MPs, experts and civil liberties campaigners, calling for a halt to facial recognition trials to give parliament the chance to debate it properly. There […]
Sir David Davis writes for The Telegraph on using healthcare data in medical research
As published in The Telegraph: This week researchers announced a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. They found that terazosin, a drug that had been developed to treat an entirely different condition – benign prostate enlargement – could also intervene to prevent or mitigate the death of nerve cells in Parkinson’s sufferers. It […]
Sir David Davis writes for The Daily Mail on how producers must reformulate food to make it healthier on the basis of the latest science
As published in The Daily Mail: A year ago, after I resigned from my Cabinet job as Brexit Secretary, I had a routine medical. The doctor frowned at my blood test results and recommended a liver scan. His instincts were right. The scan showed that I had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), caused by a […]