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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 October 2024 English

28th October 2024 In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear – from London by William Blake * Over at Prospect I have done an article on …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 October 2024 English

22nd October 2024 Not all cases of constitutional import involve the high drama of cheering campaigners and disappointed ministers – or of cheering ministers and disappointed campaigners. But the cases …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 October 2024 English

20th October 2024 Towards resolving a puzzle about how and when the decision was announced * Perhaps the best place to start for a blogpost or any other writing is …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 October 2024 English

1st October 2024 In the main courtroom of the Supreme Court there are the benches – really desks – where the Supreme Court judges sit, and at each place there …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 September 2024 English

30th September 2024 In the beginning was the Word. * Well, in the beginning there were words. Lots of words, all over the place, at the beginning of the internet …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 September 2024 English

24 September 2024 Over at Bluesky, the German writer and historian Helene von Bismarck, an acute observer of British politics, posted this interesting question: “One question I have been asking …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 September 2024 English

23rd September 2024 (“…Punish the Wrongdoer” – at the Old Bailey, London – which presumably means implicitly not punishing the innocent: source.) * I was going to do an article …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 September 2024 English

21st September 2024 How a recent appeal case is instructive about how difficult it for the English legal system to right a wrong * Over at Prospect I have done …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 September 2024 English

11th September 2024 Taylor Swift has endorsed the Democratic nominees Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. * Politically and culturally the endorsement is significant, but this is not really a political …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 September 2024 English

7th September 2024 Back in the halcyon days of that golden age of when politics seemed kind of normal, there was no greater illiberal pantomime villain than Vice President Richard …