A reckoning for justice
John Mortimer once wrote that “high among the great British contributions to world civilisation, the plays of Shakespeare, the full breakfast, the herbaceous border and the presumption of innocence, must rank our
Charlie Chaplin à la Française
A museum opened this summer in the south of France to commemorate the most popular French actor of all time. Not Gerard Depardieu, not Catherine Deneuve, but a short, bald, pretty much
An island that has forgotten the art of the backroom deal
Being a Brexiteer in mixed society in London means keeping your trap shut; being an Irish Brexiteer or even professing in Ireland that you can see the point of Brexit is right
Cast off the shackles of Empire victimhood
Recently, I was interviewed for a BBC documentary and I made some disobliging observations. Disobliging because they did not sit comfortably with the opinion of both the presenter and the other interviewees.
Criminal justice chaos
After three years in which the issue of criminal justice barely flickered onto the Downing Street radar, one might have expected those working within the system to be encouraged by the mood