Magna Carta
Generous to a fault
Watching Heston Blumenthal arrange the infernal horror that is a lamprey’s head on a plate is one thing; seeing an…
Who was then the gentleman?
Considering that it was, as Melvyn Bragg rightly puts it, ‘the biggest popular uprising ever experienced in England’, the Peasants’…
The Spectator’s Notes
It is natural to assume that, if a majority votes No in the referendum on Britain’s EU membership, we shall…
A warrant for exit
The European Arrest Warrant is incompatible with our tradition of justice
Just sign here…
This being the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, it is not surprising that there should be two…
Long before the Magna Carta
Important as the Magna Carta (ad 1215) has been as a founding myth for everything we hold dear about law…
Real life
Clearly, I am going to have to report my broken mop handle to the authorities. It has been sitting outside…
Barometer
The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
