The context was the conservatives’ 2023 Northern Ireland legacy act (public law), which the feeble Starmer government set out to repeal and replace (now paused), in order principally to please the Irish government and reset relationships with the EU.
Britain abolished its blasphemy laws because they were incompatible with a free society. We understood that beliefs, religious or otherwise, are not entitled to protection from insult, however distasteful.
She is appalled by Palestine Action’s victory in the High Court, and supports the government’s intention to appeal.
Conservative councils across the country should take note: review planning rules, stand up for residents, and use the legal tools available. That is what strong local leadership looks like.
At the heart of the dispute lay a now all-too-familiar tension: between policing impartiality and the apparently insatiable desire of public institutions to virtue signal while taking sides in ideological battles.
The case hinges on Rwanda’s capacity to deliver the necessary safeguards, not on any claim that the entire policy is a breach of international law.
The need to review every deportee on a case-by-case basis gives campaign groups the chance to bog it down in legal trench warfare.
Contrast what Jolyon Maugham’s outfit are saying about their most recent case with what the judges thought of it.
It is clear that a comprehensive international strategy is required to hold Beijing to account.
Brodie Mitchell is taking Royal Holloway university to the High Court after being suspended and placed under restrictions following a campus confrontation where he compared a pro-Palestinian student’s keffiyeh to a “tea towel”. At risk? A quarter of a million pounds.