constitution

Press regulation: Could royal charters be the answer?

As the clock continues to tick on Lord Justice Leveson’s proposals, Downing Street continues to look for answers – and a royal charter might just be the get-out-of-jail-free option the prime minister is looking for.

With gender equality we would all have been Germans

Had the current reform to primogeniture rules been in place a little over a century ago, we would all have been eating schnitzels for breakfast. Or something.