Many will feel morally conflicted about some prisoners having the vote, but it is important to rise above the noise and recognise that the issue has been primed to achieve other ends.   

Those calling for a UK Bill of Rights have come to do so under the intellectual window-dressing of ‘subsidiarity’ – that the protection of human rights should be primarily a matter for nation States.  This is an entirely respectable aim which should enjoy universal support.  Yet this version of subsidi...