Eighty years ago this year, on 1st April, 1946, David Maxwell Fyfe cross-examined Hitler’s Foreign Secretary Joachim von Ribbentrop, often regarded as Hitler's ‘fool’, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. As English Cabaret continue to perform Sue Casson's Dreams of Peace & Freedom, the story of David's journey from Nuremberg prosecutor to ECHR champion, for All Fools Day, Tom Blackmore reflects on changing perceptions of foolishness, and ponders who the fools are today. This is All...

For Maxwell Fyfe the evidence of Nuremberg and the drafting of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms were one story. It was a story of the conquest of tyranny and the establishment of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

During our year commemorating the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights we have been remembering its birth from the...