Criminal Justice

Ronan Bennett, 24 June 1993

... team, led by the late Sir Michael Havers; the juniors were Michael Hill, Paul Purnell and Philip Havers (Sir Michael’s son). The three juniors at a later point signed a note listing, among others, Conlon’s alibi witnesses. They included Burke’s name on the list. However, a separate list later made available to the defence unaccountably omitted ...

After Martha

Paul Laity, 25 September 2025

... working on reforms. The public has a sense of safety being eroded in the NHS by underfunding, short-staffing and crumbling infrastructure, but the (related) number of errors is not common knowledge. Medics are familiar with other problems that lead to failures in treatment: silo working and poor communication; toxic cultures in hospitals; gaps in ...

Courage, mon amie

Terry Castle: Disquiet on the Western Front, 4 April 2002

... England’s, breathing English air,Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.Yet it’s only a short step from Brooke’s patriotic composting to fantasies of an even more atavistic sort. Almost as soon as the first Great War cemeteries were opened to the public, sentimental grave-visitors sought to absorb the magical rigour of the dead. In The Unending ...