It's a measure of how low British politics has sunk that at Prime Minister's Questions this week, the Prime Minister taunted the leader of the Opposition for having written a book about European human rights law.

Last weekend a young Iranian woman of Kurdish origin called Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for 'violating public morals' by refusing to wear the hijab. Her sentence together with a fine was court imposed. When she went to receive her punishment, she refused to wear the hijab and was threatened with 74 more lashes. She still refused. As she was lashed, she whispered 'in the name of woman, in the name of life'.

Next week I will be introducing a private member’s bill at Westminster designed to give the Scottish parliament the power to amend the role of Scotland’s law officers including dividing the role of the Lord Advocate into two separate jobs. One as head of the Scotland’s prosecution service, and the other as a minister of the Scottish Government and its Chief Legal Advisor.