New legal opinion on the Online Safety Bill
There has been significant commentary on the flaws of the Online Safety Bill, particularly the harmful impact on freedom of expression from the concept of the ‘duty of care’ over...
Letter to Justice Secretary: Adoption of a UK Anti-SLAPP Law
29 November 2022 To the Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab MP Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Copies sent to: Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab, Deputy...
A new generation of protesters in China?
An image going viral on Chinese social media of the white paper/A4 protests It is now three days since protests erupted across the country after 10 people died in an...
The Kingdom Is the Strangest Medical Drama You’ll Ever See
The Kingdom, Lars von Trier’s 1990s miniseries about the supernatural goings-on in a Copenhagen hospital, isn’t your average medical drama. The focus isn’t on mass emergencies, rushed consultations, or code...
Seven Books That Will Make You Smarter
The cover of a nonfiction book is like the hood of an automobile: Nudge it open, and you’ll find sentences like cylinders and pistons folded and coiled together, an engine...