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Brexit: Panic on the streets of Covent Garden

Posted on February 2, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

On Friday, with 12 minutes to fill at the fag end of a three-hour breakfast show, the pronoun people at BBC Radio 5 Live invited on former MP Sir Bill Cash (aged 84), and former tax (avoidance) barrister Jolyon Maugham … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: One foot in the grave

Posted on January 30, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

So, tomorrow, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project will stagger to the end of their 2024-25 reporting year (1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025). As documented on this blog in December, it’s been a miserable … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: Jolyon’s End of Days message

Posted on December 13, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

It’s almost Crimbo time, which means Jolyon “I am a KC” Maugham KC will soon be recording the End of Year video message in which he gushes about how successful he and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have been … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Labour’s self-administered lethal cocktail

Posted on December 2, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, on Friday, 236 Labour MPs voted for Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood and the rest of the Labour Government to assume responsibility for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, and for the increasingly bitter Red-on-Red warfare of the last … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: Look right, not left, then right again

Posted on November 1, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

It’s November, winter is almost here, but Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project are still floundering around, trying to work out how to “re-conceptualise” themselves for the Starmer era that began on 4 July. Last month, … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Kim gets Keir off the hook, but at what price?

Posted on October 17, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Keir Starmer had himself filmed making a personal promise to TV celebrity Esther Rantzen – Democracy 2024, innit – and now backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, having had her numbered wooden ball pulled out of a glass bowl at … Continue reading →

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