Leaving the IRGC somewhat to its own devices in Britain makes a mockery of our country and puts real people’s lives in danger. The government must either proscribe what they can now and legislate fast for the rest, or explain their cowardice to the public.
Facts don’t matter to those activists who have decided that any and all connection with Israel and its culture, however vague, is a grave moral offence. That’s why from now on I’ll deliberately take a detour just to buy something from Gail’s bakery.
What is striking is how selective our outrage has become. We obsess over language and “microaggressions”, while tolerating an industry that eroticises domination and humiliation.
Such a policy is overwhelmingly popular: a Savanta ComRes poll of more than 2,000 British adults found 91 per cent of women and 89 per cent of the public support a clear prohibition.
What happened in Manchester yesterday, is not just a deep tragedy for this country, but a global embarrassment.
Anyone desperate to surrender ancient freedoms to a government that shows no interest in taking them, or the truth, seriously, only has themself to blame.
BBC coverage of Israel is not just about occasional catastrophic blunders, but a consistent, insidious stream of distortion. We should not be mandated, via TV licence laws, to incentivise the BBC to continue this doomed pattern.
Eliminating juries under the guise of efficiency would only benefit one institution: the State.
Indian nationals still received approximately 127,000 work visas, making them the largest group of work visa recipients by nationality. Regardless of our evolving trade relations, Indian nationals are already arriving in Britain in huge numbers, a fact that myopic press coverage of these FTA talks ignores.
Divorce reform prized the wishes of adults over the needs of children. Studies that indicate children benefit from an intact family—unless abuse is involved—were ignored in favour of making marriage easier to walk away from.
NGOs play an important role in campaigning and holding political authorities to account, but this ought not render them above criticism, or, when they actively promote violence and terrorism, legal recourse.
Creasy’s attempt to expand our already liberal laws is not feminist, compassionate, or evidence-based. It is dangerous, deceptive, and profoundly out of step with where the country actually stands.