“The pen is mightier than the sword,” wrote the 19th-century English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play “Richelieu.” Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented ...

Somehow it is hard to imagine the costly and symbolic legal case that has led to Britain's 'surrender' of the Chagos Islands without the earnestly reassuring face of human rights lawyer Philippe Sands ...