ECHR
What’s the point of the ECHR?
Social policies have become issues of human rights
Protect veterans from vindictive prosecutions
The Overseas Operations Bill may prove Britain’s breaking point with the ECHR
Silenced in Court
The ECHR thinks a country is beyond the pale if it allows its citizens to say what they like
Don’t break laws to make laws
Why is a Tory government proposing to extend the scope of the Human Rights Act?
The new liberal world order
The judges rule because the politicians won’t
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.