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People Not Boats: Sacrificing Human Rights on the Altar of the Hostile Environment in the UK
If you tolerate this, your children will be next! Manic Street Preachers, 1998 Introduction The issue of immigration and human rights...

Zrinka Bralo
27 min read


Lady in Blue, Trafalgar Square, London’s Fourth Plinth Commission for 2026: In Conversation with Tschabalala Self
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990 Harlem, USA) lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. Tschabalala is an artist and builds a singular style...

Gabriella Kardos
5 min read


The Chilling Effect of the Law on Election Finance
‘Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy,...

Grace Houghton, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Leave the Empire Windrush at the Bottom of the Ocean: In Conversation with Gus John
Gus John is an award-winning writer, education campaigner, and lecturer. His work spans the fields of education policy, management, and...

Donari Yahzid
13 min read


The Barriers to Family Migration: In Conversation with Helena Wray
Helena Wray is a professor of migration law at the University of Exeter. Her extensive experience in this area spans several...

Eleanor Taylor
31 min read


Resistance in Babylon: Nurturing Hope and Creativity Amidst the Storm of the UK’s Immigration Challenges
Ali Ghaderi is a young refugee from Iran. He arrived in the UK five years ago through a family reunification scheme which was available...

Lerato Islam and Ali Ghaderi
15 min read


Neither Maid nor Man: In Conversation with Alex Garden
A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Abi Dore
23 min read


A Racial Justice Approach to Mitigation within Sentencing in the UK
A case for the enhanced pre-sentence report in England and Wales, exploring how the Canadian approach to racially disproportionate...

Ife Thompson
15 min read


The UK’s Rwanda Asylum Plan: Bad for Refugees, Bad for Rwanda
Like many other Rwandans, I heard for the first time of the United Kingdom (UK)’s plan to send its unsolicited asylum seekers to Rwanda...

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
36 min read


Where the Thames Meets the Sea
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to...

Julian Kirwan-Taylor
11 min read


The Ministerial Code: a scarecrow of the law?
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their...

Shulamit Aberbach, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Karl Heinz Bohrer’s ‘A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain’
Karl Heinz Bohrer’s A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain. [1] My friend Karl Heinz Bohrer died on 4 August 2021. He was seen...

Giles MacDonogh
14 min read


Iconoplastic: An Institutional Reform Agenda
The last few months, in particular the furore over Partygate,[1] have scarred the reputation of many of Britain’s most vital...

Polly Mackenzie
14 min read


The Problem of Sieving Related Party Transactions in India and the UK
I. Introduction The rise of family-owned businesses has resulted in the clustering of several companies and their subsidiaries under the...

Varda Saxena
20 min read


The Fight for Survival Fifty Years On—A Brief Synopsis on Law Centres in the UK
Introduction Law centres are providers of legal aid and have been in existence since the early 1970s. Their main role has been to assist...

Ayesha Riaz
33 min read


A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...

Peter Brooke
25 min read


Democracy, Constitutionalism, and the Commonwealth: In Conversation with Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Currently Professor of Government at King’s College London, Professor Vernon Bogdanor is a leading expert in British constitutional...

Teresa Turkheimer
25 min read


The Forgotten Question: Clarifying the Extent of the Protection Afforded by Actual Occupation under the Land Registration Act 2002
I. Introduction Issues of priority are at the centre of English land law. Where a plot of land in which a third party has an interest is...

Fred Halbhuber
31 min read


The Cis-normativity of Consent in Deceptive Sexual Relations
1. Introduction The criminal law continues to grapple with the concept of ‘deceptive sex’ and struggles to draw the appropriate...

Juana de Leon
42 min read


All the Law’s a Stage! Shakespearean Insights and their Resonance Today
Shakespeare understood much about the role of law in society, possibly thanks to his direct links with London’s Inns of Court. The Inns...

The Rt Hon Lady Arden
26 min read


John Morley and India: Anti-Imperialist Thought in Practice
The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...

Matthew Fisher
31 min read


The Link between British Perceptions of Party Ideological Positions and Electoral Outcomes, 2017-20
Abstract In the wake of successive disappointing election performances by the UK Labour Party, commentators on the party’s centre-right...

Colin Kaljee
20 min read


The Politics of NHS Spending
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was set up in 1948 following the 1942 Beveridge report, a cross-party report which established its...

Fatima Osman
6 min read


Splendid Isolation or Fish out of Water? Fishing, Brexit, and the Iconography of a Maritime Nation
1. The fish are alright Historically and presently, the United Kingdom has identified and presented itself as a maritime...

Aadil Siddiqi and Nathan Davies
19 min read
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