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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 August 2024 English
30th August 2024 One accusation that is often made of anyone with an interest in possible miscarriages of justice is that they are “conspiracy theorists”. In reality, however, you do …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 August 2024 English
29th August 2024 I am currently writing a critical and – I hope – balanced article on the Lucy Letby case, for Prospect magazine. That article will be accompanied here …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 August 2024 English
21st August 2024 * * One striking – and troubling – aspect of the legal case of Shamima Begum is the artificiality of the United Kingdom state maintaining that she …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 August 2024 English
19th August 2024 Over at his Substack, the leading legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg states: “There’s something about the Lucy Letby case that attracts conspiracy theorists. Maybe the truth — that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 August 2024 English
17th August 2024 Law and politics are ultimately about how power is allocated and exercised within a given complex society. In particular, law and politics are about how such power …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2024 English
7th August 2024 On the site that is still known as Twitter, Elon Musk has again tweeted that ‘civil war is inevitable’. The thing is that civil wars are rarely …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 August 2024 English
5th August 2024 Thirteen years ago, I went along to the south London shopping centre expecting to report on a riot. But there was not a riot. And so in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 July 2024 English
26th July 2024 Often the criminal cases that feature prominently in the news are really not interesting from a legal(istic) perspective. One could quite happily commentate on interesting legal issues …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 June 2024 English
28 June 2024 Some may be tempted to clap and cheer at the news that a Conservative politician is facing a Metropolitan police investigation in respect of alleged political insider …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 June 2024 English
25th June 2024 Imagine you are a business person faced with an irksome or onerous regulation. The regulation means that a course of action you would like to take for …