Jan Davies
ONLINE ONLY: An Untidy Bill
Buried in the Coroners and Justice Bill, about to be rammed through Parliament, are a variety of potentially disastrous changes to the law
ONLINE ONLY: ID Cards to be Labour’s Final Fiasco?
After widespread protest, a Japanese High Court ruled that their similar scheme could not legally be enforced. Will people in the UK just roll over and allow the government to know all about them?
ONLINE ONLY: Murder – A Biased Reform of the Law?
A proposed revision of the laws governing murder may appease women’s pressure goups but endanger justice
Online Only: Sentencing at the Hard End
Local magistrates are losing powers of discretion in sentencing
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal