Judge, author and historian Jonathan Sumption is the 2019 BBC Reith Lecturer. Sumption will deliver five lectures on BBC Radio 4 outlining the decline of politics and the rise of law to fill the void.

Former Justices of the Supreme Court are intervening in public debate with increasing regularity: here is a note of caution. Lord Sumption. Credit: Bloomberg Mercury. On Sunday's BBC News former ...

Helena Kennedy is a human rights lawyer and author of “Eve Was Shamed” (Chatto & Windus). Jonathan Sumption is a former Supreme Court Justice and presented this year’s BBC Reith Lectures ...

This year’s BBC Reith Lecturer is Jonathan Sumption, until recently one of England and Wales’s most senior Judges, sitting in the UK’s Supreme Court. In his series Law And The Decline Of Politics, he ...