Ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption today called on Britain to learn to live alongside Covid-19 because 'there have been far worse diseases'. Lord Jonathan, who is also a medieval historian, ...

A former leading UK judge has launched an unprecedented attack on the US Supreme Court, claiming its “legitimacy has been gravely undermined” by being so politically partisan. Lord Sumption, a former ...

Lord Sumption concedes: “English law has generally been on the side of freedom of expression… it has always drawn the line at threatening language which is likely to provoke a breach of the peace… If ...

Lockdowns and other Government-imposed Covid curbs contain all the ingredients of totalitarianism, a former Supreme Court judge warns. Orders to remain at home and rafts of new laws to restrict what ...

Good Morning Britain's Piers Morgan challenged Lord Sumption on the show on Monday, over his comments about not all lives being of "equal value" amid discussion of the coronavirus lockdown measures.

Lord Sumption has railed against suggestions of even tougher restrictions in the country's national lockdown. A new Good Morning Britain poll suggested that the UK wants stronger restrictions, with ...