Human Rights Act
How far we’ve come
Britain’s political debate is now debating migration, sovereignty and law enforcement on terms that would have been unthinkable a decade ago
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
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
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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
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable