'In a subsequent evidence session with Byrne’s business select committee on Wednesday, Bryant said the government was planning to strengthen export licensing laws to improve controls on goods being diverted to Russia.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'Its runways played a key role in the 2003 Iraq invasion, and in subsequent strikes on Islamist militants in Afghanistan and Iraq. But its full operations cannot be revealed.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Rhodes Professorship of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR395/r...

From a few weeks ago, the former Premier of the TCI was convicted in relation to events that were the subject of the Auld Commission of Inquiry, which, er, was a while ago: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

From a few weeks ago, the former Premier of the TCI was convicted in relation to events that were the subject of the Auld Commission of Inquiry, which, er, was a while ago: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Rhodes Professorship of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR395/r...

Latest update from the ISC on the Mandelson affair: isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Weronika Galka: Secret proceedings, (mal)administration, and the courts: RA and AA v SSFCDA, MZZ v SSD and SSHD and In the Matter of the SSD [2026] EWCA Civ 3 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/26/w...

Court of Appeal dismisses a SAMLA challenge: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner's response to the LFR consultation: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Interesting correspondence between the JCNSS and the Electoral Commission on political finance and foreign interference: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

'MI5 admitted last year that it unlawfully obtained Kearney’s phone data on two occasions between 2006 and 2009. However, in court on Wednesday it emerged the intrusion by several police forces and the Security Service was more intrusive and wide-ranging.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Conor McCormick: The Attorney General and Residual Legal Accountability ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/25/c...

"We will bring that back to parliament at the appropriate time. We are pausing for discussions with our American counterparts." Chagos Islands deal bill paused for talks with US - BBC News share.google/QB2VPP4c1ouk...

'Last autumn, I was working on a policy proposal in which Overseas Territories would be offered their own seats in the House of Lords to represent them and an Overseas Territories Volunteer Corps as part of a campaign to start talking, educating and dreaming about them.'

'this base is not just any old base. Once you’ve been briefed, even partially, on what it does the information gives you vertigo.' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

'In his email to Winnick, he wrote: “There is no legal impediment to what you have suggested just a long list of conventions that I am bound by — but am trying to slowly counter.”' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

'However, senior government officials privately said the deal could not go ahead without American approval. They described the situation as “bleak”.' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

'The legislation was being lined up to return to the HoL as soon as next week after the U.S. State Department gave official backing to the deal in a statement..., the senior official quoted above said. But that official confirmed... there will now be a rethink.' www.politico.eu/article/uk-t...

I hope he makes a ridiculous crown immunity claim; we could do with some case law on crown criminal immunity.

'But, he warned, “questions around political figures that have national security implications are radioactive in the intelligence community.”' www.politico.eu/article/if-p...

'“If Mastercard and Visa were turned off, it would send us back to the 1950s”... one executive familiar with the project told the Guardian. “Of course, we need a sovereign payments system.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...?

The Palestine Action judgment: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The Representation of the People Bill: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

The Govt's response to the JCNSS on the collapse OSA prosecutions: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

'the DV process is, bluntly, limited, flawed, untransparent, incompetent, inadequate and crying out for reform.'

'Jesse Nicholls represented al-Libi at the hearing ... describing it as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘extraordinary’, and expressing the conclusion that the targeted barrister had been singled out in order to gain a litigation advantage for the Defendants ... in al-Libi’s claim against the UK Government.'

The latest report on the use of closed material procedure under the JSA 2013: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/698b0a... Contains more detail about the cases than previous reports.

The NIAC: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

'...while I did not oversee the due diligence and vetting process, I believe that process must now be fundamentally overhauled.' www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

'The impact assessment put it in stark terms: “In a time of trade wars or conflict, reliance on foreign (potentially adversarial) suppliers is a strategic liability.”' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'In written submissions, al-Libi's barristers said the government had "proceeded to enter her chambers despite having been refused permission, enter her safe in her absence, and remove the very working material over which consent had been expressly refused, in both electronic and paper form".'

You could do some interesting comparing (and contrasting) with the treatment of the Caribbean OTs: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The UK Govt's response to the Business and Trade Sub-Committee inquiry on economic security: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Mike Gordon: The Mandelson Scandal and the Prime Minister: Investigating a Breach of the Ministerial Code ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/05/m...

'In a letter to Schofield published on Wednesday, Abrahams said: “Given the previous assertions by DWP that it would fix carer’s allowance overpayments, I’m sure you can understand my scepticism about your most recent commitments.”' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

'The Liverpool Law School seeks to appoint up to eight [!] permanent academic positions at Lecturer level.' www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ481/l...

'A UK minister will attend, the Foreign Office said, adding: “UK economic security goes hand in hand with national security..."' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'Unfortunately for Ming Yang, critical infrastructure now embodies this battle in ways not seen during the Huawei controversy.' www.fdiintelligence.com/content/919f...

One for the Rycroft review to consider: www.thetimes.com/article/660a...

'British officials say that “we have seen nothing” from the American side so far since Trump’s outburst to suggest that the UK is under pressure to change course on the issue. London is hopeful that the US administration will give a firmer indication of its thinking in the coming days.'

'One of the people said one proposal that had been floated was to place in the enhanced tier both China’s Ministry of State Security and the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department.' www.ft.com/content/9bfe...

'These cases tend to both complex and highly niche...'

From before Christmas: DSIT's response to the consultation on data brokers and national security: www.gov.uk/government/c...