Shagnick Bhattacharya

0 While many people will have been enjoying the midday sunshine, a community of students and lawyers gathered together in Exmouth and Teignmouth on the 4th to the 5th of June to provide free legal advice. Inspired by the University of Newcastle in Australia, Professor Sue Prince decided to bring the concept of ‘Law on the Beach’ back to the UK, desiring to both empower the locals of the South West and foster connections between our very own law students and seasoned professionals.

0 (Note – this article was written in late June) Every so often there is a General Election that forces the losing party to reinvent itself. Think Blair after Kinnock and Starmer after Corbyn. Starmer and Blair understood that their party could not continue the way it was headed. Change was needed or they would remain electorally untenable. Now, after fourteen years, this is the exact position that the Conservatives look to be headed towards.

0 (Note – this article was written on June 18th) The United Kingdom’s party system is dominated by two major parties: the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, with a smaller but significant presence of smaller parties like the Scottish National Party or the Liberal Democrats. This creates the “two-and-a-half party system” where each of the two major political parties that stand apart on the political spectrum needs a coalition with a smaller “half” party for political control.