Sunday Editorials

Founded in 2011 as a way of archiving news related to the changes in the UK justice system, LawNewsIndex has been collating law and justice related news covering each day since December 2011. Since July 2026, a new weekend feature comprising essays, comments and original creative writing on an eclectic range of subjects is being published as 'The Sunday Editorial' from a range of contributors under the general editorship of the Welsh writer Taz Rahman:   

 

Editorials published on Sundays since July 2026 - 

'The Music of a People - Langston Hughes and the Afterlife of the Black Poem', by Taz Rahman, 18th October, 2026 

'The forest listens - the ancient Sanskrit Rigveda poem "Ode to Aranyani" and its ecological imagination in relation of our contemporary climate-related consciousness', by Taz Rahman, 11th October, 2026   

'The Dark Gravity of Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca - the Poet and the Duende', an introspective on the Spanish poet and cultural icon - by Taz Rahman, 4th October, 2026  

'The Rebel and the Word - Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Poetry of Revolution', an analysis of the politically charged poetry of the Bengali poet Nazrul - by Taz Rahman, 27th September, 2026

'Yeats, Joyce and the Problem of Irish Independence', by Taz Rahman, 20th September, 2026 

'In Defence of Iolo Morganwg, Forging Wales’ Past to Preserve Its Cultural Future', by Taz Rahman, 13th September, 2026 

'From Devolution to Revolution: A lifelong Journey Towards an Independent', Socialist Cymru', by Mike Jenkins, 6th September, 2026  

'Why Virgil, Horace, and Ovid Still Matter: Latin Poetry for Twenty-First-Century Readers in Translation:' Why should twenty-first-century readers continue to read poets who wrote in Latin more than two thousand years ago?, by Taz Rahman, 30th August, 2026  

'Before our private green paradises become casualties of a climate we can no longer pretend is someone else’s problem, it is time to look beyond the hedge', by Gareth Writer-Davies, 23rd August, 2026

'Juxtaposing the Grace and Notions of Moral Injustice in Marilynne Robinson’s masterpiece Gilead', by Taz Rahman, 16th August 2026

'A Lyric Essay on the European Eel', an original creative lyric on the need to preserve the critically endangered European eel, by Suzanne Iuppa, 9th August 2026 

'Beyond Licence to Kill: What John Buchan and Ian Fleming Reveal About Justice, Morality and the Stories We Need', by Taz Rahman, 2nd August 2026

'Utilitarianism in an Age of Permanent Crisis', an introspective on John Stuart Mill's utilitarian political philosophy in light of 20th century scholarship from John Rawls and Karl Popper, by Taz Rahman, 26th July 2026

'Why Henry David Thoreau Still Matters in the 21st Century', an essay on Thoreau's environmentalism, and developing an intellectual framework for challenging existing laws that goes against the grain of equality and climate justice, by Taz Rahman, 19th July 2026 

'Football and the National Temper', contextualising George Orwell's 1945 essay The Sporting Spirit and how football masks the need for identity politics, by Taz Rahman, 12th July 2026

'In Defence of Decency in a Polarised Age', the need for maintaining decency and pursuing progressive values in a social media age of polarisation and fundamentalism, by Taz Rahman, 5th July 2026