Supreme Court
Expelliarmus!
Harry Potter is cancelled, Sainsbury’s cancel their shoppers, Taxpayers fund Stonewall, and packing the (UK) Supreme Court
Abortion Law should not be decided by courts
American conservatives and Polish liberals are both right about abortion law. It should be a matter for elected politicians, not Supreme Courts
Open to review?
The Faulks panel may prove to be a convenient fig leaf to allow government to override the rule of law
Letter from Washington: After RBG
The death of a great American shakes up the race for the White House
Justice city
Withdrawing British judges from Hong Kong risks playing into Chinese hands
Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
Letter from Washington: Conservatism’s entente discordiale
America’s religious right questions the deals it has cut
Stinger stung
A professional gambler who sued for £7.7 million has unwittingly led the Supreme Court to redefine honesty
Supremely impartial
Far from being enemies of the people, our judges have a fine record in ignoring political considerations when making their rulings
The new liberal world order
The judges rule because the politicians won’t
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
