There has been an undeniable, perhaps still underappreciated, shift in British politics. In just a few years, we’ve gone from James Forsyth – the former Spectator journalist and key Sunak confidante in No.10 – declaring that immigration is no longer ‘a political problem’, to the Leader of the Opposition calling for mass deportations and Reform, […]
Amid the outrage over the recommended changes by the Sentencing Council, each side of the political aisle has reacted with condemnation and attempts to offset the fears of ‘two-tier sentencing’ and undermining the principle of equality under the law. On the Conservatives’ side, Robert Jenrick has won an impressive victory by challenging the legality of […]
British nationality seems to be, rather than immaterial, something completely material, summed up in the existence of a bit of paper bearing His Majesty’s stamp. In 1707, following the English Parliament’s Union with Scotland Act (1706) and the Scottish Parliament’s Union with England Act (1707), each nation – legally – ceased to exist. Of course, […]
There’s a bad habit in British politics: rather than fix bad laws, we make worse ones. This week, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced her intention to establish a ‘council on Islamophobia’, that would ‘provide advice to ministers on tackling Islamophobia’. This law is almost a direct product of the 2010 Equality Act, which made […]
On day one of his second presidency, Donald Trump signed over 200 executive orders, covering the crisis on the southern border, a national energy emergency and withdrawing from the 2015 Paris agreements, as well as rescinding 78 of President Biden’s executive orders. You might be tempted to think that this can’t happen in Britain, and […]
