Can Twitter force Elon Musk to pay up?
The court case following Musk’s aborted buy-out could have profound consequences for social media and trust in the legal system.
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Wendy Joseph Q&A: “My hero was Sherlock Holmes – I prayed for a mind like his”
Wendy Joseph was born in Cardiff in 1952 and began her career as a criminal barrister in 1975. From 2007…
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The Bill of Rights will create more work for woke activist lawyers
Talk of adding special British-flavoured rights has, rather embarrassingly, come to nothing.
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There’s nothing bold or brave about raising the smoking age to 21
A puritanical minority are going after a poor and marginalised minority.
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“There was a god complex”: Adam Wagner on why Downing Street broke its own Covid rules
The No 10 parties have “all seemed egregious” to the barrister who spent two years tracking the UK’s pandemic legislation.
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Succession: What it’s like to be on the inside during a corporate crisis
Corporate insiders tell the New Statesman how they handle a business breakdown.
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Geoffrey Cox is the last of his kind. More’s the pity
The Torridge and West Devon MP is a throwback in a number of ways.
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Margrethe Vestager: “Europe was so far ahead of the curve on privacy”
The EU commissioner on her battle with Big Tech.
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