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
Toxic relationship
For a long time, it has seemed that you’re nobody until somebody’s tried to get you cancelled
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart