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27 January 2021 Notes on a crisis: Why we have not yet found a way to mourn loss on this scale Perhaps the only thing worse than submerging yourself too deeply in other people’s sorrow is to not feel it at all.  Last April I became obsessed with numbers. Death tolls, transmission rates, hospital figures, risk. I was living in New York City, the epicentre of the pandemic, where if you didn’t hear sirens you might hear birdsong on wide, empty avenues once choked with cars...

When my mother had her eggs frozen Letters On Monday, the same day that the government was refusing to commit to a temporary extra £1,000 a year for recipients of universal credit, Dido Harding and David Williams, permanent secretary at the health department, confirmed that the same government has been paying £1,000 a day in fees to up to 900 test-and-trace consultants from Deloitte. I assume they subscribe to Jonathan Sumption’s view that some lives are less valuable than o...

Letters Universal credit | Southern English breakfast? | Winter freezes | Goosegrass The winter of 1947 saw eggs freezing inside the pantry, writes William Burgess. Photograph: Miroslav Pesek/Getty Images/iStockphoto The winter of 1947 saw eggs freezing inside the pantry, writes William Burgess. Photograph: Miroslav Pesek/Getty Images/iStockphoto Thu 21 Jan 2021 12.47 EST Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 12.49 EST On Monday, the same day that the government was refusing to commit to a tempora...

IAN BIRRELL: Deborah James, 39, is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two and an inspiration to many since her bowl cancer diagnosis. Yet her life has been deemed less valuable than others.

Cambridge Union announces term card for Lent 19 January 2021 The Cambridge Union have announced their term card for Lent. One debate, on whether judges make better law than politicians, will see two former Supreme Court Justices, David Neuberger and Jonathan Sumption go head-to-head, while former Home Secretary Amber Rudd will be in conversation Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s Director of Communications, on 9th March. Union President, Freddie Fisk, has explained that, ‘as in Easter 2020, all ...

As a youth he excelled in the pool, but Law Commission chair Sir Nicholas Green QC went on to make waves in the law and legal politics. Nick Kochan spoke to him

As a youth he excelled in the pool, but Law Commission chair Sir Nicholas Green went on to make waves in the law and legal politics.

Jonathan Sumption said 25-year-old would get NHS priority over the captain He did not realise he was talking about the £33million hero when he answered  Came after row following less valuable comment on podcaster Deborah James   Miss James suffers from Stage 4 metastatic bowel cancer and had 17 tumours  Outraged viewers blasted Lord Sumption as morally bankrupt and horrible But he insisted that the comment was made in context of his earlier remarks

Jonathan Sumption, who sat on the Supreme Court until 2018, made the comments while appearing on the BBCs The Big Questions this morning.

Jonathan Sumption QC’s withering denunciations of lockdown are pinned up outside the local Wetherspoons.