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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 dished out to Bono and Angela Merkel....

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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 have,...

17.02.2026 30

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Banning drill music from court would be a mistake

11.02.2026 20

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Law and disorder / Palestine Action and the limits of jury justice

07.02.2026 10

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Palestine Action and the limits of jury justice

07.02.2026 10

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Juries from home would be more trouble than they're worth

01.02.2026 30

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How not to fix British art

27.01.2026 20

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Farage’s defection deadline could make a Tory-Reform pact more likely

21.01.2026 10

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What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?

20.01.2026 10

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The Fuad Awale case shows what's wrong with the ECHR

02.01.2026 10

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Is this finally the end of non-crime hate incidents?

24.12.2025 20

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The Church of England's gay marriage row will rumble on

17.12.2025 10

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The worrying flaws in Lammy’s plan to cut jury trials

02.12.2025 8

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Crime and punishment / There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

29.11.2025 10

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There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

29.11.2025 10

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Now Britain must quit the ECHR

17.11.2025 3

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More asylum hotel protests are inevitable

11.11.2025 4

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Who cares if the Huntingdon train hero is an immigrant?

06.11.2025 8

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The rise of anti-democratic human rights

04.11.2025 5

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Human rights scepticism is now mainstream

31.10.2025 10

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Non-crime hate incidents aren’t dead yet

22.10.2025 7

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Lawfare / Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row

15.10.2025 6

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Badenoch’s ECHR pledge could be the start of a Tory revival

06.10.2025 9

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Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel

30.09.2025 4

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Deploying the military won’t stop illegal migration

21.09.2025 10

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Trump / Deploying the military won’t stop illegal migration

20.09.2025 10

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One in, one out / Labour is in a migration trap of its own making

16.09.2025 10

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Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR

12.09.2025 5

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The English countryside isn’t ‘racist’

03.09.2025 9

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Lawfare / The Epping hotel ruling is a victory – and a defeat – for Labour

30.08.2025 10

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The Epping hotel ruling is a victory – and a defeat – for Labour

29.08.2025 6

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The real significance of Farage’s deportation plan

26.08.2025 5

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Starmer is dodging the real asylum battle

25.08.2025 10

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The Epping tipping point

20.08.2025 10

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The US is right to warn Britain about its free speech record

13.08.2025 9

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Labour is going to have to leave the ECHR

11.08.2025 10

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Starmer will regret his ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal

06.08.2025 10

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Starmer must not kotow to the ICJ on climate change

28.07.2025 10

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Defining moment / Kemi has fallen into the Islamophobia trap

28.07.2025 7

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What Suella Braverman’s plan for quitting the ECHR gets right

21.07.2025 10

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The flaw in the CofE’s £150 million victims’ fund

16.07.2025 10

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Francesca Albanese is insufferable, but don’t sanction her

11.07.2025 6

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International law / Keir Starmer needs a new attorney general

23.06.2025 10

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How the ‘experts’ got the grooming gang scandal so wrong

22.06.2025 10

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David Lammy has scored a win against pro-Gaza civil servants

11.06.2025 7

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Kemi Badenoch is walking into her own ECHR trap

06.06.2025 4

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Brace yourselves for more Quran-burning trials in Britain

03.06.2025 10

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Britain’s Gulf trade deal is not the place for virtue signalling

30.05.2025 6

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How Starmer was stiched up over the Chagos islands

23.05.2025 8

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