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The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights

30 November 2024

9:00 AM

30 November 2024

9:00 AM

The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and Isis. But the enemy that really concerns them doesn’t carry a gun or wear a suicide belt. It’s the phalanx of lawyers they think are coming for them, armed with a deadly weapon: the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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