
Austen Morgan: The strange story of Adams, the IRA, imprisonment, compensation – and an important decision for Ministers
Will they fight any following cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and ask it to overturn Kerr’s decision?
Will they fight any following cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and ask it to overturn Kerr’s decision?
All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
Britons can be very proud that he quickly answered the calls of the Kurds at the moment of their righteous rebellion and intense suffering.
In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.
A contest exists between traditional common lawyers, who believe the constitution exists (in their minds), and modernisers including myself.
A casualty of its changes in government was a confidential questionnaire for pupils – given out and collected by inspectors.
The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.
First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
Here’s her take on Universal Credit, science, Liverpool, same-sex marriage – and her department. “Big thanks to the Jabs Army, we are the Jobs Army.”
Plus: The Government will soon have to set out the tough decisions on public spending to constituents.
A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.
Conservative messaging implies an implicit belief that there are no major state functions ripe for reform in any fiscal repair.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
Up against the noisy unions, it’s struggled to convey the safety of schools compared to other environments.