Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
Crime incorporated
Why is it so hard to put rogue companies in the dock?
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Trial by Jury
I should have known that expressing the slightest doubt about trial by jury would lead to public opprobrium
Open to review?
The Faulks panel may prove to be a convenient fig leaf to allow government to override the rule of law
Gross injustice at the Court of Justice
A British lawyer is fighting her dismissal in a Kafkaesque post-Brexit judicial quagmire
Jury’s out
Reducing jury trials would reduce the legal backlog, but at what cost?
A very private affair
Even without the Human Rights Act, our judges would have developed a new law on privacy by now
Stinger stung
A professional gambler who sued for £7.7 million has unwittingly led the Supreme Court to redefine honesty
British QC begins legal action against EU
If the EU can sack court members — judicial independence will become meaningless
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
Is the expat way of life coming to an end?
The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
The beat will go on
The coronavirus pandemic has decimated the nightclub industry, but will the shifting landscape sow the seeds for an entirely new era of clubbing?
Edward Elgar: Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)
The Bavarian Radio singers’ command of English will have to improve when Sir Simon Rattle arrives to take over
The black hole of online censorship
The removal of Parler from app stores has made it clear that online opinions exist at the sufferance of those providing the soap box
How the rise of digital technology facilitated lockdown
Philosopher Mark Sinclair warns against the slippery slope of technological thinking
Fisherpeople
Tears over Jordan Peterson’s book, The Sun goes woke and the BBC’s “fisherpeople”
“Trans”
Dominic Green on the history of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender