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It’s with triple reluctance that one disputes anything said or written by Jonathan Sumption. First, Lord Sumption is among the commentators I most admire, with an intellect against which it must be foolhardyto pit one’s own. Secondly, as a former Supreme Court justice, his legal expertise will be immense, whereas I only read law as
IN July 1966 The Observer newspaper warned the British prime minister Harold Wilson, whom the paper supported at the time, about his plan for a pay freeze to curb inflation.
I AM horrified at the appointment of the former prime minister, David Cameron, as Foreign Secretary, as he demonstrably lacks two of the essential…