Jeremy Bamber and a Free Press: UK Justice Turns Out the Lights
Why has the Prison Service banned the convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber from any contact with the media, whether by letter, email, phone calls or face to face visits? And is such a ban lawful? Bamber w...
27 Touko 49min
The Road to Chisinau - Politics and the ECHR plus Tackling State Threats to the UK
After a year of political pressure from a growing number of Member States concerned to counter populist anti-ECHR rhetoric over asylum, illegal migration and deportation of foreign criminals, the 46 m...
20 Touko 42min
Failing to Face Down Fraud: Does the SFO Have a Future?
Is the Serious Fraud Office “on the ropes” as the headline in a recent Financial Times article declared? Was the former anti-corruption tsar Ken Clarke right in 2014 when he told SFO Director David Gr...
13 Touko 41min
Iran - Trump’s Permanent War?
On 21st April, almost two months since the US launched Operation Epic Fury “to destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy Iran’s navy and other security infrastruc...
7 Touko 43min
AI, Hallucinations, and the Law
How far away is the reality of an artificial "legal brain” thanks to the extraordinary speed of developments in AI? With the CEOs of the key frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind) predicting that...
7 Touko 49min
Mandelson’s Vetting in Wonderland, and Victory for the Assisted Dying Filibuster
With numerous former senior civil servants attacking Keir Starmer for his decision to sack Sir Olly Robbins – former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O'Donnell says the sacking “risks having a serious and s...
22 Huhti 35min
Kathleen Stock on the Right to Die, Freedom, Death, and Mercy
With Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill apparently doomed to extinction thanks to the co-ordinated efforts of a handful of Peers determined to ensure it cannot complete scrutiny...
15 Huhti 46min
Prisons in the UK: Violence, Drugs, Squalor, and a Glimmer of Hope
On 19th March 2026 the Chief Inspector of Prisons issued an Urgent Notification placing Woodhill Prison into special measures (https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_reports/hmp-woodhi...
1 Huhti 41min
