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Monday, 30 December 2019

Private Legislation, Part the Second

This is part two, following on from a previous article . You will want to read that first, and note that when I said the follow-up would b...

Friday, 20 December 2019

Private Legislation, Part the First

There is a little known, though historically significant, class of Parliamentary Bill of which in the Fifty-Eighth Parliament there are cur...

Monday, 2 December 2019

Lunar Perigee Syzygy

This article is prompted by a question from @SophieJane96x [1], viz. was the Moon closer on Sunday night because it looked bigger than no...

Thursday, 28 November 2019

And may the Lord have mercy on your soul — The Trial of Sir Roger Casement for High Treason

Before we begin, this is not about the facts of the case. Others have written about those at length. This article is about the procedure. P...

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