It should surprise no one that the prize-match fight for the rule of international law has pitted Israel and South Africa against each other at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The world is split between those who have crafted a self-serving global and regional order that guarantees them impunity whatever their crimes, […]
There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative. It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference to accountability before elected representatives. That prerogative, in other words, is the last reminder of divine right, the fiction that a ruler can have powers vested by an unsubstantiated deity, […]
Leading Net Zero proponent Chris Skidmore has announced he will quit Parliament "as soon as possible", saying he could not support a Government committed to a course of action "I know is wrong and will cause future harm".
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Rishi Sunak called for a change in global refugee laws in Rome last week. Or did he, asks Alp Mehmet – the message was not repeated in any official communications and there is a notable lack of concrete action.
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Western Governments are stuck in a bind of their own making with the unworkable Refugee Convention preventing effective control of their borders – a prime example of a luxury belief, says Dr. Prakash Shah.
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The UK’s leaders are tying themselves in knots in their desperate attempt to defend the indefensible. In a debate on Israel and Palestine in Parliament last week, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs Leo Docherty got up and said: There is no scenario in which Hamas can be allowed to control Gaza […]
The BBC has been criticised by Conservatives for describing a political festival hosted by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and attended by Rishi Sunak as a "far-Right rally".
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"I don't want to get into that": the Covid Inquiry's Hugo Keith KC shocks observers by shutting down Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he points out that lockdowns did more harm than good.
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast – recorded live at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square – the talking points are Nigel Farage reaching the jungle final, Robert Jenrick quitting and Alex Jones's return to Twitter.
The Government’s Climate Minister has been flown thousands of miles back from the COP28 environment conference in Dubai to vote for the Rwanda bill and will then be flown back again, it has emerged.
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