King John placing his seal on Magna Carta 810 years ago is widely held to be a low point for the monarch and a boon for the rest of us. Now all those centuries later his work is about to be undone by none other than David Lammy who arrived in the House today to announce the partial abolition of trial by jury.

The Sage of Tottenham makes an unlikely tyrant; his air is of someone who should be losing control of a children’s birthday party somewhere. Yet John wasn’t exactly a man of steel either – though he at least had a sort of animal cunning. We have gone from Lackland to lackwit.

Lammy is easy to paint as a clown but today he achieved something which most of Britain’s more corrupt and tyrannical leaders could only dream of

The Justice Secretary began proceedings by assuming a sad and s

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