Those who hoped to curtail plastic production—and the health risks associated with the stuff—were disappointed. Oil lobbyists, less so ...

Terrorism law sits alongside the general law of the land. It provides special rights and privileges for the government in addition to what it can do under normal criminal and civil law. In the 1970s ...

Sasha Mudd is Prospect’s philosopher-at-large. She is an associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and visiting professor at the University of Southampton ...

Ben Olivier is the CEO of Thales Alenia Space UK and theVice Chairman of the UKspace trade association ...

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 texts are section 19 of the Public ...

Exceptionalism is a hobgoblin for even the broadest minds. A bad thing may have happened to others, but it wouldn’t happen to us. In the words of the 1935 novel coming back into vogue: It Can’t Happen ...

This is a review of a book I haven’t read. Hardly an unusual circumstance for book reviews these days—but, in this case, I was not able to acquire a copy. Earlier this year, Edinburgh University Press ...

Is Britain becoming a police state? This week, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Conor Gearty, a barrister and professor of human rights law at LSE, who explains how his views on the future of protest ...

It is, it transpires, the Great Unmentionable. Parliamentarians will discuss war and peace as easily as urban chalk streams, endangered bats, driven grouse shooting or neon signage. But there’s one ...

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology ...

As I’ve got older, most of my straight and lesbian friends have dropped out of the party scene. It’s clear that many were using partying as a means to an end—as a launching pad for a relationship, ...

As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...