An affront to justice
New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor
The case against climate change
Campaigners are using the courts to challenge states and utilities on greenhouse gases
Keep politics out of the courts
It’s not for judges to say whether witnesses should have answered MPs’ questions
What is the case against Maya Forstater?
An employment judge may not believe sex is immutable — but will the appeal tribunal agree?
How to scotch independence
Can and should the Supreme Court decide the UK border?
Fixing the unbroken
Reform of judicial review is a solution without a problem
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
Fox’s real strategy
Column inches, not mayoral success, is the real victory of Laurence Fox’s political campaign
Iran’s nuclear conspiracy theories
Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet
Deviating definitions
Andrew Tettenborn says the trend of redefining certain terms not only hinders social communication but is also almost literally Orwellian
The hypocrisy of The Northern Ireland Office
They would never do to Scotland what they’ve just done to Ulster
Is incitement to religious hatred the new blasphemy?
In a new lecture for Gresham College, Ivan Hare QC discusses the law’s attempts to deal with hatred and vilification throughout history
McCarthyism, Cancel Culture and the new woke agenda
J. C. D. Clark reveals how Alan Dershowitz’s book is a nostalgic defence of the ‘American dream’ and of American exceptionalism
Why is Keir Starmer apologising for going to church?
Christian beliefs on charity and sexual ethics are not unrelated
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 7.0
Dominic Hilton on the Instagram influencers in his plaza, conversations with his mother and a terrible death on the streets near his home
Im Abendrot (DG)
The baritone Matthias Goerne sings with a voice like brushed velvet and diction clearer than iced vodka in this five-star album