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Former Supreme Court judge opposes plan to relocate the English National Opera from the London Coliseum

Lord Sumption — former Supreme Court judge plus medieval historian — has the reputation of being the cleverest man in England. To this can be added that he’s an ornament to the London arts scene. I’m talking about his resignation from the board of the English National Opera. By quitting the way he has, he’s brought to public attention the scandal that is the Arts Council’s treatment of London’s second opera house. By slashing its funding it is forcing the company to move outside Lo...

Lord Sumption has quit the board of English National Opera over a plan to move out of London forced on it by what he called a “philistine” Arts Council.The form

Former Tory Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg said the probe into Boris Johnsons handling of the pandemic must be about the systems of government, not an individual.

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The Cabinet Office has tonight launched a last-ditch legal effort to avoid handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApps to the official Covid public inquiry. Officials released a strongly-worded statement confirming the department has requested a judicial review of the inquiry’s demands for material, having missed the revised 4 p.m deadline to pass on Johnson’s messages. Baroness Hallett,

In a surprise move, the former prime minister gives all of the documents the COVID inquiry wants to the department - now the ball is in the governments court.

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

Ghana expects a lot more of a Chief Justice, as the head of the Judiciary, described by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers (1778) as the “least dangerous branch” of government because it has “no influence over either the sword or the purse.”