Human Rights
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
Explaining law to Monbiot
Interim injunctions exist for a reason
Trans rights and wrongs
There is more than one definition of a “right”
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Equality for some
Labour is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
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
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
