A genuinely fascinating interview with a man who managed to rise to Attorney General despite the profound handicaps in our politics of modesty and thoughtfulness. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ministers-refl…
Interesting - for me at least - to read him struggle with a question I also do: about the analytical content of the role and responsible limits of criticism of judges. 
Embedded in the (now) orthodox belief that judicial diversity is a good thing is the assumption that judges bring who they are to what they do. If this is true (and imo it is) it must follow that it can be right to ask whether who a judge is has wrongly infected their reasoning.
I doubt the sexuality of Etherton (who the Mail was criticised for describing as an "openly-gay ex-Olympic fencer") was relevant to his decision in Miller but there might be cases where it would be relevant. Indeed, because there are is why we need a diverse judiciary.
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