A sense of insecurity pervades the international stage. Western states are separating out into an axis defined by those who are taking power through populism and fomenting fears of the “Islamic terror”; whilst other struggle to remain grounded in international consensus around principles and values that emerged following the second world war and the setting up of international institutions like the UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Meanwhile, as the media keep

Did anyone else ever feel annoyed with those blue Counsel books as a trainee solicitor? Why weren’t there any margins in them? I had become so used to writing in pads with margins, I couldn’t fathom a good reason for why they should not have one, other than that maybe this was just another way in which solicitors and barristers could claim a difference from the common crowd. Digging a bit deeper, what meanings get created when you or I or anyone else draws a line which creat