Human Rights
The global war on religion
The death of religious freedom heralds a dark new chapter in world history
Runaway judiciary
The Government’s new consultation programme offers hope for a long overdue reform of the Human Rights Act
May it please the court
Our elected representatives may finally wrest power back from the lawyers
War on words
A recent court case could give free speech advocates some serious leverage against the government
Rule of silence
Good laws can’t be made if we don’t talk about them, and bad laws can’t be repealed in silence
A catastrophic global human rights crisis
The abolition of the sex trade can’t come soon enough
Follow the money
We need to reset the overseas development aid discussion
The human rights era failed us
More than 70 years into the human rights era, the world is no more peaceful or tolerant
Why do we prioritise animals over pre-born babies?
The Government’s animal sentience bill makes a mockery of infant rights
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade