Human Rights
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
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
Trans rights and wrongs
There is more than one definition of a “right”
Rotten, Apple
Apple’s ethical fig leaf could come unstuck in India
Horrors continue in Iran
Can we keep cooperating with a disgraced regime?
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
