Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
“Hello and welcome to BBC news. And you join us here outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London where the country’s first ever closed material proceedings are under way.
"Presided over by Sir Colm Locution the nationalist Law Lord, one- time Cabinet adviser and joint favourite for the position of Attorney General.
“It has been a vertiginous and, one must say, unexpected elevation for the former assizes judge to be vying for this top position within the judiciary. However, he did rather improve his chances since taking the radical option of rendering himself both blind and deaf so better to hear the legal cases brought against the government.”

The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD

ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury

ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today

As Trump targets universities while Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem redefines habeas corpus as presidential deportation power, STEPHEN ARNELL traces how John Scopes’s optimism about academic freedom’s triumph now seems tragically premature