Criminal Law
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
Labour’s crime plans need more work
Limp idealism has been mixed up with solutions
The raw truth about legal crowdfunding
Don’t waste money on censorious causes with no legal case
What to do about Evil
How was Damien Bendall free to kill?
Redefining rape
You can’t take the penis out of rape law
The New York Times cannot stop misrepresenting the law
It has become an embarrassment
Spain’s feminist own goal
Its far-left government sought to harshen sentences for rapists. It ended up de-jailing some instead
The NYT versus GB
What did Britain do to the New York Times?
The many rooms of British law
Has British legislation become too complex to be understood?
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
