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 19 of the Public ...

The other night my six-year-old launched herself out of bed mid-sentence, arms flailing like a windmill. “Like this? Is this how he did it?” She was recreating Grandpa Joe’s jubilant dance after ...

I was on a beach when the latest global plastics treaty came and went in ignominy. At a remote spot on the South American Pacific coast, where all supplies and materials must come by small boat, and ...

Almost everyone wants the fighting in Ukraine to stop. Yesterday’s meetings in the White House were about demonstrating to Donald Trump the obvious fact that Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelensky, is ...

Toby Buckle is host of the Political Philosophy Podcast and editor of "What is Freedom?" He podcasts and writes on liberalism, republicanism, ideology, and religion ...

Seeing Chaïm Soutine’s The Little Pastry Chef (circa 1927) for the first time did not just take my breath away, it knocked the air out of my body. Displayed alongside Leon Kossoff’s sculptural London ...

One feature of the study and practice of law is that it can be curiously egalitarian. It does not matter how eminent a lawyer is, it comes down to what they write and what they do, and to whether that ...

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology ...

In a cramped room of a relative’s home, 26-year-old Suzan Maher Ramadan holds her young son, Hamza Salah Shabat. Hamza hangs limply in his mother’s arms. He’s four years old and weighs eight kilograms ...

Before this summer, I’m not sure I would have put money on it that South Park was still running. The infamously crass cartoon satire that has made headlines in the past for joking about, among many ...

Andrew Hood is a Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) ...