If he kills Scottish Nationalism it will be because he shows beyond dispute what happens when people vote for populist policies espoused by egotistical politicians. We see this happening in a number … (View Post)

He wasn't charged. The evidence supporting the rape allegation is very thin. You only have to think of the gruesome practicalities to appreciate its improbabilty. It is likely she'd been ha… (View Post)

When I first heard about the DNA evidence I was surprised but assumed it was definitive. On examination it turns out to be flaky, for a number of reasons. The main one is that such testing was not ev… (View Post)

Foot probably knew more than he could publish. In the end I think he was agnostic on the matter. One thing that is almost universally acknowledged now is that Hanratty should have been acquitted on t… (View Post)

The biggest takeaway for me from the four juries I sat on was that they varied enormously in quality. In fact I came away with the distinct view that if you were a guilty defendant, the stupider the … (View Post)