Justice
Why does the Latin mass prevail?
The Pope is visiting Lebanon and Turkey. Will anyone be raising the vexed question of the Latin mass and sacraments…
Letters: How to clear the courts backlog – without scrapping juries
Tried and tested Sir: Your otherwise excellent leading article opposing proposed restrictions on jury trials (‘Judge not’, 29 November) misses…
Juries are defenders of free speech
On Tuesday, David Lammy announced in parliament that a bill would be included in the next King’s Speech restricting the…
In defence of Chris Cash
Can you be a spy by mistake? If, with no treacherous intent, without ever intending to disadvantage your own country,…
The civil service is killing restorative justice
Failing institutions don’t like challenge, let alone being shown up. Few institutions are failing more tragically than our prisons –…
How volunteer groups are taking the place of our absent police
Chris Hargreaves used to be a wellness coach with a promising future in reality television. In 2023, he starred in…
Can anything solve Britain’s prisons crisis?
While we were inspecting HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, a commotion broke out on one of the wings.…
The law that is choking civil society
If one were to ask for a quintessential display of the British character it would be hard to better the…
Sack the judges
The population of the United Kingdom was increased this week by the arrival of two Albanian lesbians who have been…
A British First Amendment wouldn’t save free speech
Does the United Kingdom need a First Amendment? That’s a question I’ve been thinking about a lot recently, given the…
Letters: Why does the Navy have more admirals than ships?
Flag waving Sir: Just wondering if you can explain why the Aboriginal flag is flown along side the Australian flag.…
Labour should be wary of scrapping short prison sentences
What is the point of a short prison sentence? David Gauke will no doubt think carefully about that question now…
‘No win, no fee’ has no place in war zones
The guilty plea of the former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner this week to charges of fraud is a story…
British policing needs a total rethink
If you started again with a clean slate, a blank sheet of paper, you would never design a system of policing like…
The tyranny of lawyers
I have spent most of the morning trying to convince people online that Huw Edwards’s conviction does not mean that…
My night with the paedo hunters
It’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m getting psyched up to go catch a paedophile with the boys. Playlist on, rocking…
The power of restorative justice
In a week when the Chief Inspector of Prisons published an Urgent Notification detailing the horrors of HMP Wandsworth, I…
You can’t fight injustice with injustice
This week’s truism: all top-down attempts at leftie social engineering end up causing rather more misery and injustice than the…
The horrors of lynching
Percival Everett’s 22nd novel The Trees was that rare thing on this year’s Booker shortlist: a genre novel. Only which…
Letters
Procurement profligacy Sir: In response to Susan Hill’s query ‘Who allows the profligacy in NHS hospital procurement to continue?’ (‘Best…
Who governs Britain? Not ministers, it seems
Who governs Britain? It’s a dangerous question, as Ted Heath learned half a century ago. But while he was concerned…
Custody battle
Juvenile offenders need safety, care and a proper education
How verbal and physical abuse drove me out of the police
The past decade has not been kind to those we entrust, in the words of Sir Robert Peel, ‘to give…
Crackles with nylon, self-regard and unearned privilege: On the Basis of Sex reviewed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is too ill to sit on the Supreme Court. When she saw On the Basis of Sex,…
Thanks to Making a Murderer, Wisconsin’s bovine incompetence has been exposed
I wonder if Wisconsin has any idea what an international embarrassment it has become? By rights it ought to be…
