Coming up in February, 2026. #mozart #marriageoffigaro #figaro #susanna #operainenglish #withorchestra

This letter from former Cabinet Secretaries and others is straightforwardly wrong regarding the constitutional role of the House of Lords relative to the role of the Commons. /1

Because it isn't Christmas, it's Advent. Christmas begins on Christmas Day and goes on til Epiphany, arguably Candlemas. This is a hill I will die on. And 'Christmassy' is an insufferably childish term, grow up

The House of Lords should be a house of experts, former high office holders, and those who enrich our national life. Regrettable to stuff it full of former staffers as the government seems intent on doing. Lobby fodder.

"We are not abolishing juries." Pure Kafka. We aren't abolishing juries, just the right to elect to be tried by one for most of the offences that Parliament has previously decided are so serious that the accused should have that right.

I'm grateful to the Sunday Times for publishing my letter on the constitutional role of the House of Lords, correcting the misleading impression created by an open letter signed by several former Cabinet Secretaries. thetimes.com/comment/letter…

My article inspired by this terrible case. thecritic.co.uk/the-justice-sy…

Britain’s broken justice system, told through one day in court thetimes.com/article/1e73e4…

Just six weeks now before our production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”. Tickets from: abbeytheatre.org.uk/whats-on/marri… #mozart #figaro #operainenglish #withorchestra

“Revelations” 😂

A thorough demolition of what the judge found was the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal's muddled and incoherent finding of misconduct against Ashley Hurst. I especially enjoyed "the reasons are, to put it no higher, condensed to the point of compromised intelligibility."

Pacta sunt servanda…

France is developing Viso, a 100% French videoconferencing solution developed by the Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM), the French government’s interministerial digital directorate, as an alternative to US tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet. There will

We’ve written publicly to Zack Polanski following his comments on recent Elbit protest verdicts. Welcoming outcomes while failing to acknowledge a police officer being seriously injured matters. Empathy for those harmed in the line of duty should never be optional.

From Gorsuch concurrence.

Desperate spin: the draft agreement with Mauritius is not ratified and unless it's ratified it has no legal status. Which court would has jurisdiction anyway?

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today. Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison. Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency. Juries did not cause the crisis in our

This is not normal: it is a sign of a massive collapse in civilisational standards, policing, and common decency. Why has what was a hundred years ago such a fundamentally lawful society become so barbaric?

Lord Reed will retire from the post of President of the Supreme Court. Here is my writeup of his career. For The Critic.

You teach books because of the quality of what the authors wrote, not because of who or what (you think) they were. Our educational system seems to be massively overpopulated by people who have no idea of what education is ‘for’.