Courts
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Crime and consent
Acquittals should be based on objective evidence, not subjective sympathies
The pronoun ritual
How has it taken over society?
First lady of the law
The new Lord Chief Justice inherits a role with a rich and varied history
Why don’t women always go to the police?
The legal system fails victims
Guess Huw?
Time for a media law reset
Liberalism or else
The persecution of populists
Why Carole lost
Her advocates have done her no favours
Posthumous courting
Sometimes love can conquer even the unimpassioned proceedings of the law courts
The miseries of Maugham
What is the Good Law Project accomplishing?
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
