On Law
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
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
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
Open justice? Case closed
The law governing the reporting of family court hearings should be relaxed for the sake of transparency
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state