The Epping tipping point
Yesterday’s injunction granted to Epping Forest council giving the government three weeks to stop using the Bell Hotel for asylum…
The US is right to warn Britain about its free speech record
Every year the US State Department is required to produce a report on the human rights situation in every country…
Labour is going to have to leave the ECHR
The Home Secretary’s extension of the list of countries covered by the ‘deport now, appeal later’ scheme for foreign criminals,…
Starmer will regret his ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal
Today the much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ agreement over returning small boat migrants to France officially comes into effect. Keir…
Starmer must not kotow to the ICJ on climate change
Last week, 15 judges from the International Court of Justice at the Vredespaleis in the Hague, at the request of…
Kemi has fallen into the Islamophobia trap
Kemi Badenoch this weekend waded into the Islamophobia debate. In a public letter to Keir Starmer she urged the government…
What Suella Braverman’s plan for quitting the ECHR gets right
This morning’s paper on leaving the ECHR from Suella Braverman and the Prosperity Institute doesn’t say much that hasn’t been…
The flaw in the CofE’s £150 million victims’ fund
To much fanfare, the Church of England this week instituted a plan, funded to the tune of some £150 million…
Francesca Albanese is insufferable, but don’t sanction her
Among the many peripheral hangers-on at the UN, are members of a curious class of functionary known as special rapporteurs.…
Keir Starmer needs a new attorney general
A major plank in the Labour Party’s electoral platform last year was its policy of scrupulous obedience to international law.…
How the ‘experts’ got the grooming gang scandal so wrong
At this stage we can’t predict what the government’s new grooming gangs inquiry will say. But one thing is overwhelmingly…
David Lammy has scored a win against pro-Gaza civil servants
Not for the first time in Whitehall, we are seeing a power struggle between elected government ministers and civil servants…
Kemi is walking into an ECHR trap of her own making
If you think Keir Starmer is rattled by Reform’s awkward-squad views on human rights, spare a thought for Kemi Badenoch.…
Brace yourselves for more Quran-burning trials in Britain
You might well have felt slightly repelled if last February you had passed someone ineptly trying to set fire to…
Britain’s Gulf trade deal is not the place for virtue signalling
Rachel Reeves announced that a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – in other words, Saudi Arabia and…
How Starmer was stitched up over the Chagos islands
Yesterday, following a last-minute flurry of lawfare, the government published the text of its Chagos agreement with Mauritius. Future history…
Allowing camping on Dartmoor is a terrible mistake
Away from the hamlets and farms that dot the edge of it, the high moor on Dartmoor is a wild…
A 10mph speed limit is preposterous
The increase of 20mph speed limits in Britain has been sending drivers around the bend. But if an organisation called the Road…
Starmer will struggle to deport foreign criminals
The government is rattled on immigration. Forget its liberal metropolitan supporters: just-about-managing voters from Whitehaven to Waltham Cross are deadly…
Voters won’t be fooled by Yvette Cooper’s human rights gimmick
Keir Starmer’s government has grudgingly accepted publicly something it has privately known for months: voters are deadly serious about what…
We don’t need a crackdown on killer cyclists
Wayward cyclists watch out: Keir Starmer is coming for you. The government has announced a crackdown against bikers who kill…
Would scrapping juries help tackle the courts backlog?
There’s a lot to digest in the new Crime and Justice Commission report, which came out today. Its proposals include, for…
Are the wheels finally coming off net zero?
Hands up: who still supports net zero 2050? This is rapidly becoming a sensible question to ask. Kemi Badenoch for the…
Is Hungary right to quit the ICC?
When Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, who is nobody’s fool, offered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a state visit to Budapest…
The US is right about free speech in Britain
The US government’s threat to scupper any trade deal with the UK unless we commit to widening free speech not…
