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...simple device requires a degree of planning. Chris Philips, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, has already described the Manchester Arena attack as a considerable “step up” on previous attacks. In the next few weeks, investigators will be trying to determine how the individual made an improvised device. Did the attacker make the explosives...

...we on the road to a united Ireland? And what are the implications of all this for Wales as a national formation? There are no simple answers to these questions. But it is important to ask them and to critically reflect on some of the tensions that were revealed by the vote. Professor Allan Cochrane is the author of the free course From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?...

...simple majority – and so never hangs. Without eight votes in favour of a guilty verdict, the outcome will always be an acquittal. All this means that the vast body of jury research worldwide is, if we seek to rely on it in the Scottish context, vulnerable to the objection that things might be different here. Does a jury of 15, for example, work in the same way as a jury...