The Gazan family ruling makes a mockery of human rights
The need to think seriously about our membership of the ECHR gets more glaring daily. Some time ago, a Gazan…
The Church of England must leave Gaza alone
The Church of England is a past master of the well-meaning faux pas. On Monday, its General Synod waded full-on into…
The inevitable implosion of the ‘one in, one out’ scheme
We should have seen this coming. It was patent from the start that last year’s ‘one in, one out’ agreement…
Why the crackdown on Raise the Colours might be good news
Oxfordshire County Council stamped down hard on Raise the Colours’ flag-flying operations this week. Having complained that flags on lamp-posts…
The social media ban is stupid and unenforceable
The government’s announcement today of a ban on social media for under-16s doesn’t show it in a good light. The…
The SNP are creating a housing disaster
Scotland faces a housing disaster. Rents are ballooning, especially in Edinburgh and Glasgow; incomes are stagnant; and while its house…
Why did police handcuff Henry Nowak?
Britain’s police are meant to police without fear or favor, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that they don’t…
Is this what Lord Hermer really thinks about Britain?
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Keir Starmer’s premiership, they have. Last week the Telegraph exposed Lord Hermer’s continued…
Don’t punish people for not reporting criminal neighbours
There is much to like in the Fulford report on the Southport affair. It is spot-on in damning the pressure…
Keir Starmer is plotting to bind Britain to Brussels
When Labour came to power, it assured us that Brexit was safe. It never promised, however, to refrain from efforts…
The Green party’s transport plan is pure madness
As you may have noticed, we’ve seen rather more wokery than greenery from the Green party since Zack Polanski took…
The Chagos deal is unraveling
We don’t know what the end of the Chagos affair will be, but it is rapidly spinning into farce. The…
A migration U-turn would bury the Labour party
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the…
Reform is right to take on the civil service blob
Last week Reform UK scandalised Whitehall. If they take power, they said, they would take a hard look at the…
The EU’s honours list is a sham
The European Union now has its very own honours list, grandly named the European Order of Merit – with gongs…
Don’t blame the ECHR for the migrant phone debacle
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020…
Banning drill music from court would be a mistake
You have to watch the House of Lords carefully these days. Whenever a Bill on some fairly general subject, like…
Palestine Action and the limits of jury justice
Five out of six Palestine Action protesters on trial in relation to a break-in at the Elbit Systems factory in…
Juries from home would be more trouble than they’re worth
Just as a cash-strapped administration looks for ways of streamlining justice by curbing jury trials, by a nice coincidence academic…
How not to fix British art
Another day, another opinion on what’s wrong with the arts. This week we’ve got a report, ‘Class Ceiling’, by Manchester…
Farage’s defection deadline could make a Tory-Reform pact more likely
Did you read the big news about Reform? No, not its scooping-up of Tory MPs Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell;…
What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?
It is easy to forget that, under a quirk of the UK legal system, if you want to get the…
The Fuad Awale case shows what’s wrong with the ECHR
Another new year, and another controversial human rights victory for a criminal. Fuad Awale was a violent thug and Islamist serving…
Is this finally the end of non-crime hate incidents?
Roll up for a Christmas surprise on the policing front. According to a leak from the College of Policing to…
The Church of England’s gay marriage row will rumble on
The Church of England’s House of Bishops met to discuss the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) project yesterday: that…
