Magnus Linklater

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Magnus Linklater

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Magnus Linklater

When he first joined the Ukraine army in 2015, Taras Danilyuk was armed only with a hunting rifle and a shared machine gun. His first battle, in the Donbas, lasted for five days and he saw death at first hand, with many of his comrades killed or wounded alongside him. As the war dragged on, he witnessed terrible things, as all fighting soldiers do: the deadly aftermath of drone strikes and artillery shells, conditions in the trenches he prefers not to talk about.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Magnus Linklater

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Magnus Linklater

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Magnus Linklater

S i operatur non mutare is a pretty good rule to go by. Readers of The Times will need no help here, but for others, a fair translation might be: if it ain't broke don't fix it. Sir Keir Starmer, as a lawyer, should know that.