A fabulous BBC radio documentary on the new UK Supreme Court is a must for those interested in constitutional change and profound and the mostly trival matters that sometimes surround such change. The documentary blames the lack of Lord Irving's poltical skill for the ease with which the House of Lords was abolished without any real thought about what would happen next. There are also the extraordinary comments of former Law Lord, Lord Neuberger

The danger is that you muck around with a constitution like the British Constitution at your peril because you do not know what the consequences of any change will be consequences of any change will be.

For a lighter touch there are also the musings of Lord Hope over the key issue of post codes.

Geoff McLay

14 September