European Convention on Human Rights
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
Mire of conflicting duties
Acceptable speech turns into unjustified coercion as police stand by
Our human right to be kept in the dark
Andrew Tettenborn says we should be able to hear, read and say what we want without the threat of undemocratic human rights law
Don’t break laws to make laws
Why is a Tory government proposing to extend the scope of the Human Rights Act?
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
