Arrogance run amok. It is the most apt comment to characterise Britain’s justice minister David Lammy’s new understanding of what constitutes justice in England. His new scheme is to deprive many Britons of the right to be judged by 12 of their peers, insisting he has “a superior understanding of Magna Carta” and that the […]
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The Guardian reported last week that the British military is preparing for operations in Ukraine. While this was easy to treat as mere sabre-rattling, Keir Starmer’s declaration reaffirming the UK’s unwavering support for Ukraine is not just leftover Labour-campaign rhetoric. Contrary to prevailing theories on international relations, conflict is not a failure of diplomacy for the
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There was a time when Conservatives boasted they were the world’s most successful political party. Today, such voices are a bit subdued. The centre-right party that governed the U.K. for more than half of the last century is embracing Donald Trump-style policies, including mass deportations and cutting government spending, as it battles to remain a
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British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has declared that “trans women are men,” and that transgender ideology is part of a movement to undermine biological truth. At the launch of his new book, The War on Science, leading atheist and emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, Dawkins decried the infiltration of postmodernism and transgenderism into the halls of
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This essay poses a question through a lens from the North American side of the Atlantic. It is written by one who spent more than a few years in Britain and received much of his graduate education in its institutions. It is hoped justice is done in responding to the essay’s title. There exists in
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