Francis Hoar
Francis Hoar is a barrister specialising in public law who used to practise in crime. @Francis_Hoar
Should we sacrifice principle to expediency?
The ‘temporary’ threat to trial by jury
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable