Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke (@Rob_ADFIntl) is a barrister and Director of Advocacy for ADF International. He litigated the landmark case of Mortier v. Belgium at the European Court of Human Rights, which found Belgium to have violated the right to life in respect of an application of its euthanasia law.
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Why Slovenia rejected assisted suicide
Voters learned about the grim realities of assisted dying in practice
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
