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How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this ...

Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse The X owner’s commitment to free speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

Will Lewis, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and currently the publisher of the Washington Post, has been accused in the High Court of “perverting the course of justice” as the phone-hacking ...

One question asked during the last week is why those convicted for participating in non-violent protests have received higher prison sentences than those who are guilty of violent disorder. In ...

The oldest constitution in the world was not made for the political culture of modern America. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v United States i ...

From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 51 (6) of the ...

This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know… Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about ...