Human Rights Act
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Conflict and the need for clarity
On equalities and rights
Human rights and legal wrongs
Why doesn’t British legislation protect free speech?
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
For decency’s sake, let’s quit Strasbourg
The European Convention of Human Rights is now misinterpreted, misapplied and debases the currency of humanism
How to stop the boat people
The Government can do nothing without removing Labour’s Human Rights Act
A very private affair
Even without the Human Rights Act, our judges would have developed a new law on privacy by now
Don’t break laws to make laws
Why is a Tory government proposing to extend the scope of the Human Rights Act?
Who governs the judges?
American solutions won’t work for Westminster model problems
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
