It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
Proposals that define Convention rights in ways other than the Court determines send the wrong message.
It took the wholesale conquest of Germany to put the Nazis on trial; the odds of seeing Putin in the Hague are remote.
After a stumbling start, the Government is heading in the right direction on human rights reform. But there remains much to do.
The solution is emergency legislation that lists in a schedule every Russian national who has been the target of EU and US sanctions.
Policy must focus on the complex networks that perpetuate, fund, enable, and legitimise violence.
At a time when the UK is reeling from the impact of cyber attacks by suspected Chinese agents, it is bizarre to chase friendship rather than follow caution.
Along with others, I have lost trust and confidence in the leadership of the EHRC to properly protect the rights of LGBT+ people.
I would like to see a new ‘COP26 for migrants’ – a new global agreement to update the post-Second World War Refugee Convention for the modern era.
The naive globalisation of the 1990s has become a liability. Britain and its allies need to beef up their defences
Such is the logic of the new Justice Secretary’s appointment – and the combative stance of the Attorney-General.
Tempting as it may be to stop disruptive demonstrations, these changes give too much discretionary power to the Home Secretary.
The recent drive, apparently coordinated between Paris and Berlin, to push Ukraine for a compromise settlement must be resisted.