Allison Pearson isn't under investigation for stirring up hatred, says Laurie Wastell. That's just a fig leaf. She's actually being targeted for committing heresy against Britain's new woke state religion.
Beware the 'rule of law', warns Prof James Alexander. Labour's Attorney General Lord Hermer is a proponent of a 'thick' version that opposes 'populism' by taking key decisions out of democratic control.
Lord Sumption has said that if we are to be free we should do as much as possible by convention, not by law. That's right, says Prof James Alexander. But how does one recover conventions that have been lost or destroyed?
It's a striking coincidence that Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer are both former public prosecutors, says Dr David McGrogan. It's symbolic of the way law has been weaponised through political bias and double standards.
Conspiracy theories swirl around Lucy Letby, the ex-nurse convicted of killing seven babies, but experts from neonatology to statistics are also questioning the convictions, say Tom Ball and Tom Whipple in the Times.
Keir Starmer is planning to let 40,000 prisoners out of jail in a novel approach to easing overcrowding. Prisoners serving less than four years are set to be automatically released after serving 40% of their sentence.
