Ken Clarke will be a bigger loss than the Tories think
Alas, poor Ken. His departure from the Ministry of Justice will delight many in his party. No more soft touch justice, no more burbling on about human rights. The firm smack of government can be...
View ArticleThe Christians appealing to the secular European Court of Human Rights don't...
Four persecuted Christians in Britain are to take their cases to the European Court of Human Rights. Nadia Eweida is appealing against her having been sent home by British Airways for wearing the Cross...
View ArticleSAS war hero Danny Nightingale is in jail while terror suspect Abu Qatada is...
Sally Nightingale, wife of jailed SAS war hero Danny Nightingale, has made a moving appeal to David Cameron to intervene in the case of her husband's imprisonment. As the Telegraph’s Defence...
View ArticleWhy not give prisoners the vote?
Among the reasons why I enjoy being a Telegraph blogger is the reassurance – for a writer accustomed to being denounced as a warmongering, anti-Irish turncoat, anti-EU, pro-Zionist, Islamophobic Tory –...
View ArticleBarack Obama must stand up and be counted on torture issue
Four years ago Barack Obama, campaigning as the antidote to the era of George W Bush, promised to shut down Guantánamo Bay and outlaw the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding...
View ArticleLiberals have demonised Christians as do-gooders and paedophiles. That's why...
Eric Pickles has become my hero. This is not because he's going to make sure my dustbins are emptied, either. It's because he has stood up to the European Court and defended religious freedom against...
View ArticleThe British public deserve a vote on the Human Rights Act. Those who say...
Just when it looked as though the Home Secretary, Theresa May, was intent on getting stuck into a return to the policies of "the nasty party", and the president of the foolishly named "Supreme Court",...
View ArticleDon't ask whether the ECHR came to the right decision: ask whether it has any...
I was surprised that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in a case brought by a charity wanting to buy advertising space on British television aroused so little serious comment. The Court...
View ArticleThe only way to ensure control of our borders is to leave the Eurosystem
So what now, guys? Yesterday almost 100 of my colleagues in the House of Commons gallantly voted to amend the Immigration Bill to prevent foreign criminals using European human rights law to avoid...
View ArticleChange the law to include a conscience clause
We should introduce a “conscience clause” protecting Christians and others whose beliefs clash with their jobs, Britain’s top female judge has suggested. Lady Hale, Deputy President of the Supreme...
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