Law
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
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
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
