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His principled defence of liberty during the pandemic has been a lifeline to many of us.

Werner Bonefeld on debt, which became a serious political and social issue during the 1980s and 90s, culminating in Black Wednesday in September 1992.

Britons, unfazed by high COVID rates, weigh their ‘price of freedom’

David Hutchinson   SIR – An old friend of ours has been in hospital for two weeks. He has had regular Covid tests, all negative, but he has just been pinged by Test and Trace telling him that he has been in contact with someone who has Covid and must self-isolate for 10 days. He isn’t certain if he’ll be out of hospital by then. Eric Harpham   SIR – Huge numbers of people have to isolate after being pinged by the NHS Covid-19 app, crippling the economy in the process. Why on earth can these people not go to work, if they test negative every day, as the Prime Minister tried to do h...

★★★★✩ This book comprises a series of lectures given by Jonathan Sumption (pictured) over the 10 years preceding 2020, encompassing his time before, during and after his tenure as a Supreme Court judge. The first five lectures relate to the importance of history. Sumption, a respected medieval historian, bemoans the fact that lawyers are not compulsorily taught history and maintains the importance of history as a source of vicarious experience. The remaining lectures range from debates about the abolition of personal injury claims, and what Magna Carta really represents, to more c...