Human Rights
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
The ban that wasn’t
The “conversion therapy” ban is the product of misleading memes
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
