Law
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
Justice city
Withdrawing British judges from Hong Kong risks playing into Chinese hands
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
Should we sacrifice principle to expediency?
The ‘temporary’ threat to trial by jury
Thrown to the #MeToo wolves
The intolerance of the professional class means a supreme court judge must now live in infamy
Jury’s out
Reducing jury trials would reduce the legal backlog, but at what cost?
Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
A very private affair
Even without the Human Rights Act, our judges would have developed a new law on privacy by now
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
Will Brexit mean us getting the fags we want?
The current state of the transition talks
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
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
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
