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
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
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
How neutral is “Full Fact”?
Sometimes it’s hard to get anyone right
Steven Spurrier: A class act of the wine world
Steven Spurrier, a British wine expert and a fixture at all London tastings, died this week at the age of 79
Six ways to end Britain’s culture wars
Nigel Jones proposes a list of six steps that the government could easily enact to conserve our liberty
Diversity at the BAFTAs
The BAFTA film awards have seen plenty of diversity in recent years, but have gone down in film history as the least diverse film awards ever. Why?
The underlying cause of death
Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths
Blinded by science
Alasdair Palmer says there is little evidence to show that lockdowns are effective
Why is the Cabinet still so united?
There is a crisis in the country, but not in Whitehall – why?
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
Instagram vs. Brexit reality
It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU