The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from using anti-personnel mines. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was cited as a key reason.
The judges had to interpret the law as set down by parliament. But it must be remembered this is not an abstract debate; it concerns real peopleSam Fowles is a barristerThe supreme court, headlines say, has ruled on “the definition of a woman”. Except ...
Parents of Isaiah Haastrup and Zainab Abbasi, who died in 2018 and 2019, have said they want to ‘tell their story’Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the UK supreme court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell...
Readers respond to George Monbiot’s piece on how economic inequality fosters resentment, exclusion and nostalgiaGeorge Monbiot (Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature, 13 April) makes some very important poin...
Cllr Jonny Crawshaw outlines the financial perils of an education sector that is no longer fit for purposeThere is undoubtedly a crisis of funding hitting classrooms across England’s secondary education sector (Half of England’s state secondaries force...
President calls elite university a ‘joke’ and threatens to strip it of tax-exempt status as $2bn in funding frozenDonald Trump has declared that Harvard University should no longer receive federal funds, calling the pre-eminent university in the US a “...