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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 …
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 …