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Jun 25, 2023
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
Nov 12, 2025
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A close look at Truss's legal threat to Starmer
Jan 9, 2025
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"Computer says guilty" - an introduction to the evidential presumption that computers are operating correctly
Sep 30, 2023
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How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose
Sep 11, 2024
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Trump v BBC - a guide to the case
This resource page sets out the key developments in the case with links, and it will be updated from time-to-time
Jan 13
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Notes on gangster states
Why legitimacy matters when the state has a monopoly on coercive and lethal force.
Jan 12
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
Watching from afar further shift in a worsening polity
Jan 8
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But what about international law?
What happens to an international legal order when a superpower goes rogue?
Jan 6
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The United States is a gangster state at home and a rogue state abroad
And how this is ultimately the fault of Congress and the Supreme Court.
Jan 3
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Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
Dec 26, 2025
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“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on
A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest.
Dec 24, 2025
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Trump v BBC: the battle begins
My Prospect article this week.
Dec 19, 2025
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A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
Dec 16, 2025
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