This morning, the new Justices of the Supreme Court were sworn in at the Supreme Court building (formerly Middlesex Guildhall) in Parliament Square. Shortly afterwards, they were back in the Palace of Westminster. To mark the start of the legal year, judges attend a service in Westminster Abbey and then process across to the Palace…
Like many, possibly all, parliamentarians, I receive a regular e-mail circular from Peter Tatchell. As may be expected, I don’t always agree with what he says, but he often raises important issues and, like a number of my Conservative colleagues, I admire his tenacity and read what he has to say. Until I got one of…
Having received some very good responses to the question about drugs, I shall be interested to see if we attract a similar level of responses regarding our divorce laws. High profile divorce cases variously raise the issue of whether our divore laws are fair. There are problems with generalising from specific cases. However, according to recent…
We now have two grand prize-winners (Chris K. and Jonathan). It will be interesting to see how soon we have a third. With this week’s quiz, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. Question 1 1. I am a distinguished historian. 2. I have been a university vice-chancellor. 3.…
A friend of mine recently said to me: ‘ You haven’t blogged about yourself recently’. He obviously said this in a fit of complete absent-mindedness, since he usually takes the view that everything I write is, in some way, about me. I had been thinking I might lighten (or possibly darken) the mood by writing…
