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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: UK Law and Politics 2025-2026: What’s Happened and What’s Coming Next
Description: To start the New Year, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined once again by the UK’s leading legal journalist and author of the daily blog, A Lawyer Writes, Joshua Rozenberg, to review some key issues in UK law and politics during 2025 and to look forward to likely developments in 2026.
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Against the background of a polarised, often ill-informed, debate around migration, asylum and Article 8 of the ECHR, where does the embarrassing case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah fit in this confused, fevered political landscape?Â
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2025 saw persistent populist attacks on the ju...