give the go-ahead

It sounds medieval and it is, but Hegseth is the “secretary of war,” and if Loomer were to persuade the addled president to give the go-ahead, it’s likely he would not hesitate to execute the strategy.

It is understood the oil companies will accept that the decision to give the go-ahead was unlawful - because the emissions they would create were not properly assessed - and will not challenge it.

You wouldn’t know it from reading the byzantine body of case law that now governs capital punishment or watching judges give the go-ahead last week for those executions.

As the judges have declined to give the go-ahead for the challenge, this ruling marks the end of the appeal process for Letby.

The person’s body lays frozen in the county morgue as the investigators scramble to find family before being forced to give the go-ahead to cremate the remains.