Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Sadiq Khan has been ordered to explain his ousting of Met police chief Cressida Dick
Indyref2: yes or no?
The Supreme Court must rule on Nicola Sturgeon’s bid for a second referendum
Johnson’s disrespect for the law
The PM repeatedly showed a cavalier attitude towards constitutional conventions
Independence: a two-way street
Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions
Justice over the internet
Civil cases could soon be resolved quickly and cheaply through online “portals”
I spy a new clampdown
Will new laws to combat foreign espionage inhibit public interest journalism?
“Good chaps” need not apply
Lord Chancellors who respect inconvenient unwritten rules are no longer welcome
You can’t ride two horses
It’s time to make the office of attorney general a non-political public appointment
Drawing the line on hatred
Do proposed new hate crime laws balance free speech with protecting minorities?
Shifting the goalposts on Israel
A partisan report distorts the law as well as the facts on the Palestinian question
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
