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Why Melania Trump's statement is a fascinating exercise in text and performance

The silences after a threat of genocide

Why weren't officers' war crimes concerns reported to the military police at the time?

How Trump has created a situation he cannot get out of

The Mueller report was a turning-point where United States history failed to turn

Why the United States attack on the school in Minab matters

The prospect of "executive orders" being used by an incoming illiberal government

The Palestine Action proscription case and the botched prosecution of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh -how the Home Office, the police, and the prosecutors, are not taking terrorism law seriously

What is not happening with constitutionalism in the United States and the United Kingdom

The curious section 3 of the new National Security Act

But what about international law – continued.

Six proposals for improving public procurement

Six things wrong about public procurement

Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

Misconducting in public office

Will the Carnival ever end?

What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean

1642's Five Members vs 2026's Six Members

Three reasons why the Mandelson disclosure exercise will be a shock for the government

The constitutional significance of what happened to the Prime Minister last week

On the disclosure of Mandelson's emails

Why Rwanda is bringing a legal challenge against the United Kingdom

Thinking about what has happened in Minnesota

My posts this week

When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island

“…neither rhyme nor reason.”

Trump v BBC - a guide to the case

Notes on gangster states

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

But what about international law?

The United States is a gangster state at home and a rogue state abroad