Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Drill in the dock
It can be legitimate to use music as evidence in criminal trials
Crime and consent
Acquittals should be based on objective evidence, not subjective sympathies
Conscience and the courts
It’s called jury service, not jury suggestions
Just stop illegality
Protest is no excuse for causing significant harm
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
Inclusive fairytales
The Windrush mythos obscures the real facts
Understanding abortion law
It is important not to let emotions cloud the facts
Why Carole lost
Her advocates have done her no favours
The law is not a football match
Why are Carole Cadwalladr and her supporters claiming to be vindicated?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
