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geoffrey robertson, welcome to hardtalk. how big a deal is the icc�*s decision to charge vladimir putin with war crimes and issue an arrest warrant? it's very important because it has removed a credibility that he would otherwise have had. he is banned now from 123 countries. so, in addition, he may well end up in the hague, not soon, of course, but in years to come, there may be a coup and he may, like milosevic, be handed over for... to ease sanctions. he may, in time, he's only 69, be stumbling into the dock like some old nazi, as there are at the moment in germany, so it is not...

Of a russian oligarch, or of british defence, or of wealthy individuals, they come at you with defamation actions, which will cost you £1 million, even to successfully defend. they come at you with privacy actions... to be fair, they come at you with the law and, surely, they have a right to use the law. of course. and the argument that i make is the law should be changed to favour free speech and not to suppress, as the way criticisms of putin were suppressed. books, prescient books a couple of years ago, showing that putin and his cronies were corrupt, have never been published in britain, ...

Even to successfully defend. they come at you with privacy actions... to be fair, they come at you with the law and, surely, they have a right to use the law. of course. and the argument that i make is the law should be changed to favour free speech and not to suppress, as the way criticisms of putin were suppressed. books, prescient books a couple of years ago, showing that putin and his cronies were corrupt, have never been published in britain, or were subject, in the case of one important book, to massive cost. it cost the publishers £1.5 million to defend it... and that refers to the boo...

Or of wealthy individuals, they come at you with defamation actions, which will cost you £1 million, even to successfully defend. they come at you with privacy actions... to be fair, they come at you with the law and, surely, they have a right to use the law. of course. and the argument that i make is the law should be changed to favour free speech and not to suppress, as the way criticisms of putin were suppressed. books, prescient books a couple of years ago, showing that putin and his cronies were corrupt, have never been published in britain, or were subject, in the case of one important ...

The rich and the government try to prevent free speech. and what you appear to be saying here is that the uk system, which british politicians proclaim as absolutely enshrining freedoms, including freedom of expression, you say it's somewhat of a myth, that actually the british legal system doesn't guarantee freedoms at all. it doesn't. this is the problem. we don't have free speech in this country. we have expensive speech. if you want to write an expose of a russian oligarch, or of british defence, or of wealthy individuals, they come at you with defamation actions, which will cost you £1 m...