Why the Government really tripped up over Heathrow

The decision illustrates how previous parliaments have freighted the process of policy-making with an increasingly onerous lattice of ill-defined obligations.

The real question isn’t which airport we build, but how to get better at building anything

If there’s one thing which ought to unite even the most passionate partisans of the different proposals, it’s the abject state of British decision-making on infrastructure.

Iain Dale: My knickers are for the many not the few

Plus: Will Javid come back? Will Boris Island fly? Hazzer, formerly the Duke of Sussex. And: an ice bath in a Scandi forest.

Giving power to the judges. First Heathrow – next, the NHS.

If governments are going to keep signing up to ‘legally-binding targets’, this sort of thing will continue to happen. Legislative indolence is the root of judicial power.

Profile: Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor who stands between the judges…and the wrath of the Brexiteers

The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.

A victory for free speech. But clear legal safeguards are still needed.

Tightening the definition of a “hate incident” would help. Our new Attorney General has a lot of work to do if public confidence is to be restored.

Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.

We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.

Edward Faulks: The Supreme Court’s prorogation judgement unbalanced our constitution. MPs should make a correction.

For many lawyers and commentators, its ruling was an assertion of judicial power that cannot be justified by constitutional law or principle.

Suella Braverman: People we elect must take back control from people we don’t. Who include the judges.

The political has been captured by the legal. Decisions of an executive, legislative and democratic nature have been assumed by our courts.

The year in which the British people forced the pro-Remain Ascendancy to “come to heel”

When Lord Kerr whistled, voters turned the Nelsonian equivalent of a deaf ear.  When they whistled, he was dragged helplessly along by the command of a democratic vote.

Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

To view Britain in such a way is to see a useless picture of the nation. Most people are Just About Managing. And they are our new voters.

The London Bridge horror. Now is the time to deliver on the other half of Taking Back Control.

Asserting the rights of Parliament over the EU is half the European mission.  Asserting them over the ECHR is the other half.

David Davis: When it comes to terror, elected MPs must have the final say on human rights – not judges

Government and Parliament must limit judicial discretion in cases where there is a proven and ongoing risk to the public.

How to halt the vexatious legal pursuit of our brave servicemen and women

Lord Caine has projected a plan that would allow proceedings into suspected Troubles-related offences only if certificates are issued by senior legal figures.

David Alton and Luke de Pulford: Britain must lead the world towards tougher action against genocide

The Coalition for Genocide Response urges politicians to ensure the UK fulfils its duty to prevent atrocities, protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.