Sam Fowles

Sam Fowles is a barrister, columnist for Perspective Magazine, Director of the Institute for Constitutional and Democratic Research, and an associate at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases (Oneworld, 2022). He is on X @SamFowles and Instagram/Threads @drsamfowles.

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Suella Braverman
The attorney general has failed in her constitutional duties, says report

A cross-party report has found that political attacks on judges by ministers were not “constitutionally… proper” and may appear to compromise the independence of the judiciary. Ministers have a duty to protect judicial independence. But the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution concluded that the politicisation of key constitutional offices means that… Read more »

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Imperial nostalgia is choking Britain

It’s a political imperative for the government but harms the economy, alienates swathes of the population, and closes down free expression. As the country gears up for a much-deserved jubilee party, the Prime Minister has summoned the spectre of empire: promising to “bring back imperial measurements to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee”. At the same… Read more »