Our current legal and political machinery lands the mother of a 13-year-old daughter in prison for over a year over some nasty words online yet pours its energies to rescuing a man who detests Britain.
Would-be reformers have thus far refused to countenance returning to the traditional constitutional position, long predating the ECHR and HRA, that Parliament can be trusted to protect human rights through ordinary statutes.
Previous policies pushed by Reform have tended to have an off-the-cuff, back-of-the-fag-packet quality but their immigration plans are not like that. At least for now, it is Farage and Reform, not Labour or Conservative who have undeniably captured the zeitgeist.
By exposing veterans to further investigations, whilst potentially enabling figures like Adams to exploit the legal system – and sue the British taxpayer – all in the name of “upholding human rights”; the Government risks alienating those who defend the nation.
Philp was extremely rude, but also pointed out that the Conservatives are developing policies to stop the small boats.
Here are four clauses for a potential Bill of Rights which, if included, would get us as close as our constitution can get to American free-speech protections.
The number of illegal immigrants crossing the channel is up by 28 per cent since the election, and the start to 2025 has been the worst ever for illegal immigrants crossing the channel.
The Opposition’s amendments to the Border Security Bill are sensible, but do not come close to the change it implies on social media they would deliver.
“Parliament has essentially been circumvented… by the way these ECHR rights are being interpreted,” the Shadow Home Secretary says.
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely correct to say that we need to focus on rebuilding trust, but a commitment to leave the ECHR would show we are listening and have understood what we need to do differently.
Have ministers been properly warned of the huge risk of litigation if the Government tries to use secondary legislation to affirm that his detention was legally proper?
Politicians are never slow to find reasons not to engage with difficult problems – but neither far-right disorder nor international law offers a good excuse for not addressing public concern.
I doubt that the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment will help states better address climate change – but it certainly helps seal the case for states to withdraw from the ECHR.
There is some truth to the claim that there has been a big shift in power away from Parliament and a narrowing of politics – but in the British constitution, a government with a majority could fix that.
It reflects British legal traditions more than foreign ones, and it stands as insurance against the very sort of authoritarian or socialist government Conservatives most fear.