Browsing: Crime & Justice

new video loaded: Meet the Theremin, an Instrument You Don’t Have to Touch to PlayThe theremin is an electronic instrument that emits a beguiling, oscillating sound.…

Juries are an archaic and inefficient feature of Britain’s collapsing justice system. They survive only in some English-speaking countries as quaint relics of medieval jurisprudence. They…

We cut the eggs in half so that it stretches. We used to give out a whole dozen of eggs. Now we cut the dozens in…

Keir Starmer is facing backbench anger after ministers abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal, a U-turn that breaches the Labour manifesto.MPs including…

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the…

The estate of Johnny Cash is suing Coca-Cola for illegally hiring a tribute act to impersonate the late US country singer in an advertisement that plays…

How many women are in prison around the world?More than 733,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions globally, according to the Institute for Crime…

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Simon Jenkins is right that the Lords should not kill legislation by procedural manoeuvre (Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying: that’s a democratic outrage) . But…

David Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for Black, Asian and minority…