The Queen’s Speech shows threats to a balanced constitution are noise not substance

Dicey produced the nearest the UK has had to a constitution written down in one book. His ongoing influence is remarkable—and detrimental

Technology has changed the nature of campaigns yet regulation has not kept up

The Victorians and Edwardians worked out the ground rules of the politics of their day. Our own times require us to be similarly bold

Despite strict prohibitions in law, the UK has taken advantage of torture on a significant scale. And now the commitment to an independent judicial inquiry has been dropped

In whatever form a constitutional crisis finally manifests, its ultimate cause is the conceptual incompatibility of popular democracy and a parliamentary system

Open justice is not only about opening the courtroom doors. It's about public understanding and access to proper legal rights

A constitution should regulate conflict between different parts of the state—and in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal case it did just that

There's still time to do Brexit right. This is how

It's no certainty that the UK will ever leave the EU