Human Rights
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
How far is too far when it comes to protest?
Against the notion of competing rights
How China woos the Muslim world
Money talks louder than Uyghur Muslims can scream
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
