Listening to David Lammy on BBC Radio 4 Today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.

We have continuously opposed proposals to curtail jury trials because there is no evidence that their removal would reduce the backlog nor has it been set out how an alternative system would be resourced. We urge the government to reconsider pursuing radical changes under the

“Last year the entire budget for courts & legal aid was £5.5bn, almost the exact same amount of money, £5.4bn, that we spent on illegal migrants. He defends their rights under the ECHR but not ours rights under Magna Carta” Robert Jenrick tears into Lammy scrapping jury trials🔥

Award-winning Yorkshire firm - Yorkshire Handmade Brick - files intention to appoint administrator.🧱😱 Their letter on why Labour 🥀is to blame👇

You will be shocked to discover after reading these that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion. This is getting ridiculous now

This is silly by Elon. He thinks that just because we’ve criminalised speech, logged non-crime hate incidents, rolled out mass surveillance, expanded the Investigatory Powers Act, added facial recognition, censored the internet, eroded away jury trials, tried a bit of pre-crime

Yet another scandal uncovered, this time on student loans. My view is that we are saddling youngsters with such extreme debt, then charging ludicrous interest on those loans. It is morally repugnant to load young men and women with yet another tax. And it is a tax... But let’s

The cartoon in today’s Telegraph is brutal. The future is Starmer’s all-seeing nanny state. Quite the rebrand from Labour as defender of civil liberties, right?

And now I’m here at one of my favourite pubs. The Old Ship in Limehouse. On the corner of a square (the square that was the inspiration for Albert Square on Eastenders) it stands opposite The Queen’s Head pub on the other corner. If you’ve ever seen the photo of The Queen Mother

There is really something very strange going on over Chagos. Rarely does a report stage and third reading come in the same week and rarely does hugely significant legislation get rushed through. Just who is benefitting from the Chagos sell off ( remember we are paying Mauritius)-

Perfect day for a winter walk. Low sun no wind but a bit claggy under foot making the going heavy and giving a different meaning to walking tall.

Sunny winter walk cold a bit claggy underfoot but perfect finish.

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Just had a depressing call with my accountant. After repeatedly going through figures, it seems that selling my flat- which has the loveliest couple- is the only sensible thing to do. It's simply costing me more than I earn from it They can't afford to buy themselves, and love

Not allowing replies because he knows it's garbage... There were no bids for offshore wind in AR5 because the prices were too low. So they went up in AR6 That wasn't enough either... Orsted cancelled the flagship project in AR6 because it was a uneconomic Now not only is AR7

Today, the Government will use a remedial order to overturn legislation passed in 2023 by the Conservatives that stopped lawfare against our veterans. This will mean civil action against our veterans. This is not justice; the Government must stop

In 1987, at Loughgall - the greatest single defeat of the IRA by the SAS - eight heavily armed IRA murderers attacked Loughgall police station with a 400-pound bomb and automatic weapons. The SAS shot the eight terrorists dead. One of the IRA members killed was Patrick Kelly.

This is a, frankly, an outrage. A small group of parishioners look after our 1,000 year old church on behalf of the country. It’s a core part of England’s built heritage, but funded solely by villagers, many doing so sacrificially. We get zero subsidy from the

Almost unbearable to watch, except through tears of pride and sadness. Britain’s best of the best who fell in Afghanistan — very much on the frontline. Donald Trump should be force to watch this. Then go down on his knees and ask for their forgiveness.