Prof. James Chalmers
Prof. James Chalmers was appointed to the Regius Chair of Law in 2012, and is currently REF Champion for the School of Law. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Follow him at @ProfChalmers
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise