With just three weeks to go before the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons, it is worth looking at what happens next—and what is going on behind the scenes. Obviously, the biggest danger to the ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

What is allowed to be a joking matter? And where does one draw the line? This week, Alan and Lionel discuss the pitfalls of being a satirist in 2025. They talk to political cartoonist Steve Bell, who ...

“To keep this moor viable we have to raise 6,000 grouse a season, which we do by killing everything else that moves,” says Viscount Deveroux, the alter-ego of comedian Henry Morris. Walking a moor, ...

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Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the Environmental Information ...

Since 2017, Donna Ockenden has spent much of her time gathering testimony about the very worst things that can happen during childbirth: death or serious injury for mothers and babies. The senior ...

More curious goings-on at the Jewish Chronicle (JC), the only paper in British history, so far as I can see, where we are not allowed to know who owns it, or why. This cloak of secrecy led to five of ...

Jess O'Thomson is a legal researcher, writer & journalist. They are currently a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, School of Law. Their research explores the use of trans and disability human ...