The Law and Policy Blog
Thinking about what has happened in Minnesota
My posts this week
When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island
“…neither rhyme nor reason” – how are currently in a situation where precedents and norms and laws and rules and theories offer no assistance.
Trump v BBC – a guide to the case
Notes on gangster states: why legitimacy matters when the state has a monopoly on coercive and lethal force.
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
But what about international law?
The United States is a gangster state at home and a rogue state abroad
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Trump v BBC: the battle begins
A guided tour of President Trump’s 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
The correct way to go around reviewing the ECHR – and the incorrect reasons for doing so
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”
Trump v the BBC cont’d: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator
Why the BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
The letter the BBC could send to Trump in reply to his $1bn claim
A close look at Trump’s $1 billion claim against the BBC
The BBC’s depressing lack of inherent institutional strength
The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system
Equal and opposite effects: how liberals are working out to how to campaign in the modern age
Trapped in a latter-day Plato’s cave
An instance of the royal prerogative
The one-way constitution
Why ‘A House of Dynamite’ is a good film about how those with power make decisions
An odd DPP letter and a curious government witness statement – an overall view of the dropped Chinese prosecutions
What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal
Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions
Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law”
Two glimpses of Conor Gearty – a master in promoting the public understanding of law
The Kneecap prosecution collapsed because police and prosecutors did not take terrorism law seriously
The Prime Minister’s extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court
Recognition of Palestine is ultimately a political not a legal question
The curious dropped prosecution for Chinese spying
The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law
Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
The assessment of Palestine Action as being involved in terrorism
Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution
“Yield, man!” – another dark moment in United States law and policy