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Both descriptions have been used by serious people in good faith. Here is the strongest version of each, and the question that actually dec…

The phrase sounds like an excuse and is actually a legal category. Understanding what it does and does not permit is the difference between…

On paper both groups are protected. In practice the protection depends on being recognised, on someone enforcing it, and on a prosecutor wi…

Almost everything the public knows about how wars are actually fought came from someone inside who decided to talk. The law offers them alm…

The case is over and the questions it raised are not. Where things actually stand, and what is still unresolved.

Opinion on the war had already turned before 2010. What the releases changed was not whether people supported it but what they thought it c…

The footage raised four separate ethical questions and they keep getting mixed together. Taking them one at a time is the only way to get a…

The footage led the news for about a week. Then the coverage changed subject, and the shift from the airstrike to the publisher is the most…

Fourteen years across four legal fronts, in three countries, over two entirely separate sets of allegations. Here it is in order.

The organisation faded. Its methods did not. Almost every practice it introduced in 2010 is now ordinary newsroom equipment.