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COMMENT: Indicating support for a terrorist organisation with a placard should not be a criminal offence, as it is inconsistent with the basic rights of free speech, says Jonathan Sumption

We should all be worried that the rightwing organisation Alliance Defending Freedom has been increasing its activities in this country, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Health secretary risks tainting the debate by turning it into an issue of pounds and pence, Labour grandee says

Editorial: The conviction of peaceful pro-democracy activists is another shameful moment in the ongoing crackdown

Three former Supreme Court judges and 597 other lawyers have written to the Prime Minister to ask him to act against Israel by cutting arms sales. Britain is a signatory to the Genocide Convention and is therefore required to do what it can to prevent genocide. But the emotive issue…

James Cleverly says government ‘willing to listen’, as Tory right threatens to ‘kill the bill’ after Christmas

THE UK Government’s Rwanda plan is “probably dead” in its current form, former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption has said.

"Constitutionally really quite extraordinary" – that's the view of former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption on the government's plan to use emergency law to "change the facts" and declare Rwanda safe. Is he right?

Lord Sumption — former Supreme Court judge plus medieval historian — has the reputation of being the cleverest man in England. To this can be added that he’s an ornament to the London arts scene. I’m talking about his resignation from the board of the English National Opera. By quitting…