All news on the topic: Magna Carta

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Trump’s embassy accused of meddling in British democracy with £400,000 grants to promote Maga-style "values"
The US embassy in London is offering grants of up to half a million dollars for new “public education” programs in what has been criticized as interference in British domestic politics.
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Pro-Palestine activists await verdict over Moog arms factory damage in Wolverhampton
A jury at Birmingham crown court is deliberating whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory in Wolverhampton.
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Aristocrats gone, but House of Lords remains unaccountable and out of touch
The decisive expulsion of hereditary peers from the House of Lords may have eliminated a glaring anachronism, but it can hardly be called a triumph of democracy.
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New Zealand studies British plan to scrap jury trials for less serious offences
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says he is closely watching the UK’s plan to scrap jury trials for offences carrying sentences of less than three years, a key change the New Zealand Government is also considering to help speed up court processes.
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Original 1300 Magna Carta found at Harvard — bought in 1946 for $27
An original edition of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers incorrectly listed as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a "rather insignificant price," has been discovered.
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Campaigners in court over Magna Carta incident
Two women in their 80s have denied damaging the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library on 10 May.