By Sam Fowles Far from endangering our freedoms, the ECHR makes the individual, not the state, the centre of the international order, says Sam Fowles An immutable law of modern politics is that the louder a politician bloviates about “freedom” the more authoritarian they will be in power. The last government waxed lyrical about “freedom of speech” then tried to ban peaceful protests, even attempting to imprison a pensioner for holding a placard reading “Jurors you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience” (the same message is displayed on a plaque in the Old Ba…