To ensure that the constitutional dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic receive independent scrutiny, in 2022 theBingham Centre for the Rule of Lawestablished theIndependent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers. The Commissionpublished its reporton 15 May this year after 15 months of intensi...
2022, resulting in a red alert for ‘extreme heat’ from the Met Office and ‘do not travel’ advice from Network Rail. Late July is historically the hottest time of the year, with the early part of the month not far off. The average high in July was 19 degrees a generation ago; ...
Notably, although many of the failed democracies we examined were weakly institutionalised at the outset (for example, Bolivia, Ukraine, and Zambia), others such as Hungary, Poland, and Venezuela were once considered relatively robust democratic regimes. These cases raise the question of whether ...