'Without a jury, a criminal courtroom is just a chamber full of state employees, trying to work out how long the defendant should go to prison for.With a jury, it is a place where the Crown has to prove you are guilty beyond reasonable doubt. If it can’t, you stay free.'

Here’s a list of world leaders (Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Khomeini, Maduro, Assad etc) who abolished jury trials and the dates they. It now includes British Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer in 2025.

I’ll be having a root-canal during the Budget. Feels about right.

Hitting people saving for their pensions at a time when we’ll have to work longer knowing we’ll get less from the state is a special kind of stupid.

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Spectator: "Rachel Reeves’s Budget is a shambles" spectator.co.uk/article/rachel…

from Daylight Robbery, published 2019. Called it!

Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years. So who will monitor the mileage in order to calculate the tax owed during that period? Reeves doesn't know.

Back in the good ole' days spectator.co.uk/article/bring-…

My book Learning Russian Verbs (only available in print on Amazon) has already appeared on eBay UK ... well well. learningrussianverbs.com

You'd better read this or he will keep on going on about it... you know what he is like.

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🚨 Sign our petition to stop David Lammy’s assault on free speech! The Free Speech Union is extremely concerned about David Lammy’s proposal to scrap the 800 year-old right to trial by jury. Juries are a bulwark of English liberty, particularly the right to free speech. They are often

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Magna Carta, Clause 39

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He's voting in our elections, again!

Right this lovely young couple with their beautiful little one have just popped down the sea food stall to introduce themselves. They’re local and have 52 bee hives and make their own honey and I’ve just tried it and it is bloody fantastic. They’ve got a new website launching