Mrs Gentle and Mrs Clarke contend that the second article of the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the right to life, obliges the Government to take reasonable steps to ensure that its service personnel do not face the risk of death except in lawful...

Again, we see the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, insisting politics plays no part in this row and maintaining if Ukraine paid its bills, Russia would not be threatening dire measures. Perhaps. Of course there is a financial aspect to the Ukrainian s...

The first task was a relatively easy one, as was demonstrated by the intense warmth of the applause which greeted his arrival at the Synod. Looking uncomfortable, he waved his arms to quieten the clapping but had to do so twice before he began to spe...

This will apparently be spent on a massive network of "cycle super highways" to cut across London and a "hire-and-ride" bike scheme (based on the extraordinarily successful Paris "Velib" example). It all sounds excellent. But one cannot help wonderin...

Most unrepresented members of the public fall at the first hurdle and fail to prove they have an arguable case. In the majority of first-instance cases, there is little flexibility in law and a judge's hands are tied by clear statutes. To try to over...

The one aspect of the article that surprised me was that her action was described as "extreme". Home education is nothing of the kind. The psychologist Frank Smith in The Book of Learning and Forgetting chronicles how the current schooling model has ...

As many have noticed, Juno is only the latest in a recent spate of American films in which young women coping with unplanned pregnancies take the "totally selfless" route and keep their babies, including last summer's box office hit Knocked Up, and c...