*SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen the end of The Trial: A Murder In The Family, don’t read on. Unless you’ve no intention of watching it, in which case do as you please.* Last night, Channel 4’s The Trial: A Murder In The Family drew to a close. At the end of a five-day run…
Read moreA note on blogging – why I write
The Oxford Bread Knife story pootles on, given fresh wind each day by some hot take or other in the op-eds. There has been a lot of reaction on social media, and many people have taken the time to contact me to explain, in varying degrees of politeness, why they do or do not agree with…
Read moreAn Oxford medical student stabbed her boyfriend with a bread knife. So why is she not going to prison?
Remember all the fun we had earlier this year with the Cricket Bat Case? You know the one – where the defendant, Mustafa Bashir, assaulted his wife with a cricket bat, forced her to drink bleach and was given a suspended sentence, partially because the judge took account of the defendant having been offered a…
Read moreMyth-busting the “Tory election fraud” – A 10-point guide
1. So what’s all this about a Tory election fraud? The Crown Prosecution Service today announced that, following a police investigation into allegations relating to Conservative Party candidates’ expenditure during the 2015 General Election campaign, no charges will be brought. Fourteen police forces submitted files of evidence for the CPS to consider, said to show that candidates…
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