International Law
British foreign policy must serve British interests
It is time to put aside legalistic and moralistic nonsense and focus on what is best for Britain
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
Lord Hermer’s monomania
Hermer thinks 1945 is year zero, everything before that was Hitler
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Society cannot ignore surrogacy
Exploitation and dehumanisation are being normalised to a disturbing degree
On international law
International law is often far less clear than it might sound
The EU chooses lawlessness
The European Parliament is veering towards gunboat diplomacy
Against Nigeria’s blasphemy laws
No one should be killed over their beliefs
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
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There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
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Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
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President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
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How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
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The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
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