British Law
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
The future is bright for academic freedom
New threats to speech inquiry could inspire an unlikely consensus around openness
Why Mermaids lost
There is no right to avoid criticism
Traditions of the future
Time to recover Britain’s Judeo-Christian constitutional heritage
Posthumous courting
Sometimes love can conquer even the unimpassioned proceedings of the law courts
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
When does protest become intimidation?
Speech, in public, must have limits
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
Constitutional curiosities
Where do Truss and Sunak stand?
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
