Charles I

Charles Spencer, keeper of the Althorp estate and his sister Diana’s memory, is investigating a historic manhunt

Opposition proposals to restrict the power to prorogue without Parliament’s consent have met with some skepticism. Critics deride the idea as unconstitutional and unprecedented. Unprecedented, that is, unless you count 369 years of precedent…

ANDREW COYNE: In what other democracy is it permissible for the government of the day to hide from the legislature for months at a time?