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Scottish Legal News editor Kapil Summan speaks to historian and former Supreme Court justice, Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, at his home in London. They discuss criminal reforms; the limits of law; the decline in legislative drafting in the UK; free speech and the need to stand up to the new cult

Now in its sixth year, BuckLitFest is back from June 16 to 18

The screen adaptation of the bestselling book inevitably (and ideally) stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton – but plods along at an ambler’s pace.

First Minister admits he has been given ‘worst case scenario’ costs to public purse of action over Nicola Sturgeon’s reforms

It’s so strange now to think that I spent several happy years as a Guardian columnist, the only billet from which I’ve ever garnered a stand-alone anthology – The Guardian Columns 1998 – 2000:  There is no other commentator who can turn received wisdom on its head like Burchill… no other journalist who can combine

Weekly magazine featuring the best British journalists, authors, critics and cartoonists, since 1828

The Guardian is currently engaged in an orgy of sanctimonious breast-beating. After two years’ research commissioned by its proprietor, the Scott Trust, it has discovered that its founding editor John Edward Taylor and some of his backers had ‘extensive links’ to slavery. This has caused something like a nervous breakdown in the paper’s York Way

A new generation of British leaders has altered the political landscape but experts point out the next general election will be the real acid test among the wider public

"Government control over the flow of information: Lord Sumption speaks out against the Online Safety Bill in latest episode of Law Pod UK

Government terrorism laws reviewer Jonathan Hall KC joins growing number of voices opposing exclusion