Jonathan Sumption for The Challenges of Democracy
Tuesday 25th February 2025
St Swithin's Church, 37 The Paragon, Bath, Somerset BA1 5LY
6.30pm
7pm
Please note this event is now taking place at St Swithin's Church, BA1 5LY.
We look forward to welcoming British judge and historian, Jonathan Sumption, to the bookshop for this provocative series of essays, The Challenges of Democracy.
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today - from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. Timely, incisive and wholly original, Challenges of Democracy applies the brilliance of 'the cleverest man in Britain' to the most urgent and far-reaching political issue of our day.
Jonathan Sumption is a British judge and historian, who served as a Supreme Court Justice for six years. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Trials of the State, Law in a Time of Crisis, and Divided Houses, which won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize.