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This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...

But that’s how it is. When Musk decided to splash out $44bn to buy what was then called Twitter, he took ultimate responsibility for the speech of 350m-odd users of the platform. And Twitter—now ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

In allegations that have not yet been tested at trial and on which the court has made no judgement, the claimants allege that Lewis and Greenberg “were involved in the perversion of the course of ...

All this is consistent with responsible government but only because the president is subject to law. The great case of Marbury v Madison (1803) is generally regarded as the foundation of American ...

What struck me most from the first volume (of three) of the Collected Poems was just how much Tolkien was a poet of his times. The editors deny this, pointing to the idiosyncratic nature of his verse, ...

It is a question that can be answered in many ways. One answer is that we are still in the early days of sentencing for the violent disorder of the past week. The first people to be sentenced will ...

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 51 (6) of the ...

In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

Born in Shropshire and now based in north London, Lee, 56, doesn’t make life easy for admirers of his work. His shows over the last decade often see him portraying his fans as pretentious, smug bores.

Western officials have been keen to emphasise that such a war may not transpire. Many suggest the risk of nuclear escalation has eased since the disastrous opening months of the invasion. In October, ...