Trial by jury: a sacred cow?

Interfere with it and you risk a painful kicking

I should have known that expressing the slightest doubt about trial by jury would lead to public opprobrium.

But, as you can read in the new edition of The Critic, I was sorely provoked.

I can’t send you the full text of this piece for copyright reasons — but you can read it by subscribing to The Critic or reading it online.

Later today, I plan to publish…