The Government will never be able to get a grip on crime if the infrastructure of prosecution has rotted away.
There is no democratic entitlement to engage in politically-motivated harassment or property damage.
It is trying to find ways to get away with violating its obligations. Not exactly in line with the image it attempts to paint of itself in the Brexit context.
Unless Ministers get more grown-up in their rhetoric, they are going to set expectations at a level they cannot and should not meet.
The Judicial Review and Courts Act is a significant defeat for activists who want more interventions by the courts.
It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
Proposals that define Convention rights in ways other than the Court determines send the wrong message.
One controversy may be considered to be a misfortune, two looks like carelessness and three suggests a pattern of behaviour.
Today’s announcement will bring total taxpayer funding for criminal defence to £1.2 billion a year, the largest amount for a decade.
Higher interest rates may slow the world economy later this year and early next. Recession is even possible for the UK.
The solution is emergency legislation that lists in a schedule every Russian national who has been the target of EU and US sanctions.
This biography will be found invaluable by anyone seeking to work out what kind of a person the Labour Leader is.
And we’re all for a rebalancing – but Parliamentary government must mean Parliament in full, not just the executive.
Take the case of a Nigerian national who was sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for offences including possessing crack cocaine and heroin with the intention to supply. The First-tier Tribunal allowed his appeal against deportation on grounds deportation was irreconcilable with Article 8.