Governments can restrict human rights, certainly. Quite a lot do around the world, and in many cases far more radically than even Lee Anderson would in his moistest dreams. On the more positive side,… (View Post)

Indeed. The whole ECHR angle is a total red herring here, in my view (a dog whistle to the Brexit-mindset). The fact is the courts found (as a point of fact) a real risk of claims being wrongly deter… (View Post)

I agree with that, yes. But again it is totally unrelated to ECHR matters and that is a red herring being thrown out there. Sunak himself correctly says sending asylum applicants for processing in a … (View Post)

Interesting, and quite revealing, that you conceive of human rights as being something bestowed on individuals by the state rather than being inherent to all human beings - codified (and indeed quite… (View Post)

I think the point has been overlooked in recent times by moderates due to the fact he has been pursuing an entertaining vendetta against his former employer, but Dominic Cummings was, is, and will al… (View Post)