Robert Buckland Weblog

It is only now that I am able to write about the shocking and dreadful event that took place at The Ridgeway School, Wroughton, on Thursday 11th January. A 15 year old pupil, Henry Webster, was viciously attacked with at least one weapon within the school grounds just after the end of the school day. [...]

The fact that Ruth Kelly had to make a statement about her child’s educational needs tells us more about the sad state of the Labour Party and its ideological hang-ups than it does about anything else. It is an ill wind that blows no-one any good, so I was glad to hear the BBC use [...]

I have been asked on several occasions by a keen reader of my blog to give him a mention.  I am happy to oblige.  He is a colleague of mine at the criminal bar, and is more used to “mention” hearings in the Crown Court than to mentions of this type.  He hails from Neath.  [...]

The intense media coverage of the circumstances in which Saddam Hussein was executed last week has largely been concerned with the manner of his hanging. Senior politicians (with the exception so far of the Prime Minister) have condemned the way in which it was done, but have shied away from more interesting questions, such as [...]