Abstract
Abstract Thus far in this book I have been content to describe the law and practice of civil liberties in the UK in a way which (Strasbourg apart) has not required discussion of an international or regional dimension. There has been a deliberate air of unfashionable provinciality which in this chapter will now be at least partly deflated. The UK has always been an island only in the geographical sense. Once it was the ownership of large parts of France, and then the empire. Now the country is part of various twentiethcentury orders outside itself: the EU, the Council of Europe, the United Nations (UN), the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and many others besides. A large number of these bodies make rules which bind the behaviour of people within Britain, with some of them also possessing institutions whose job it is to oversee with intrusive vigilance how well or badly this country has implemented their decisions. Immensely important consequences flow from all this for the country’s international standing, its economic health, and its cultural well-being.
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