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<strong>Letters: </strong>Former supreme court justice <strong>Jonathan Sumption</strong> on last week’s ruling on the home secretary’s decision to deprive Begum of her citizenship. Plus letters from<strong> Ilina Todorovska, Owen Stewart, Andrew Snowdon </strong>and <strong>Carmel Bedford</strong>

Listen to the latest episodes of The Reith Lectures on BBC Sounds

Former Justice of the UK Supreme Court Jonathan Sumption is a guest this week on Q+A.

"All knowledge and all opinion is provisional until something more persuasive comes along," says one of Britain’s pre-eminent minds.

In his fascinating interview in the current issue of The Spectator, Rishi Sunak revealed the black hole at the centre of the British government’s 2020 lockdown policies. The former Chancellor claims that two crucial things were lacking at the time of the lockdowns – political candour and a ‘grown up...

We have discussed at great lengths the many problems of the UK's Online Safety Bill, in particular how it will be a disaster for the open internet. Unfortunately, it appears that important politicians seem to think that the Online Safety Bill will be a sort of magic wand that will make the "bad stuff" online…

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Mike Igini discusses how Nigeria can overcome vote buying, improve the conduct of elections and reduce the intervention of the courts in the electoral process

Both former leaders live in a world of alternative facts, where inconvenient truths are ignored or dismissed as ‘fake news’. Both men are monstrous egotists, willing to trash the system in favour of their own interests.

Hong Kong has an independent judiciary that protects the rights of citizens, provides a level playing field for litigants and ensures fair trials. While judicial independence was simply a convention before 1997, it is now specifically guaranteed by the Basic Law of Hong Kong, the special administrative region's de facto "mini-constitution".