The Starmer regime plan to strip us of 800 years of trial by jury, because suddenly jurors are the problem, but its been tried before - and failed badly. Right, so you always know the country’s in trouble when a government starts calling a constitutional right an “efficiency problem”, because that’s how you sell something you’d never dare say plainly. And that’s what’s happening now with jury trials. They’ve taken a backlog they created through court closures, CPS collapse and a decade of cuts, and decided the real issue is the public being in the room. So instead of fixing the system, they’re cutting the public out of it. And the pitch is almost impressive in its shamelessness: this isn’t the erosion of a centuries-old safeguard, it’s just “modernisation”. It’s Diplock logic without even the honesty of acknowledging it, and you can see exactly w ...