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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
A close look at Truss's legal threat to Starmer
The former Prime Minister has sent a glorious but seemingly hopeless cease-and-desist letter
"Computer says guilty" - an introduction to the evidential presumption that computers are operating correctly
The first in a series of posts on the Post Office Horizon prosecutions scandal
How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose
A songwriter's practical lesson in written advocacy
Thinking about a revolution
Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
How a mixture of court process, law and sentencing policy led to the lengthy imprisonment of Lucy Connolly
How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”
This sentence was cut from the broadcast of the 2025 Reith Lectures for "legal reasons" - but do those supposed legal reasons make sense?
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - and how the…
In addition to the culpability of individuals, there were stark failures of the legal system
Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator
Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit
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