Blairism
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man
Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
So many art fairs, so little time
On the forums that bring together dealer and buyer
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?