News Round-Up
28 March 2023
by Will Jones
The Bad Science Behind Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ Anti-Car Crusade
28 March 2023
by Ben Pile
We should view it as concerning that U.K. universities don't seem to understand that inclusivity and excellence are often at odds. If you pursue inclusivity to its extreme then you include everyone irrespective of merit.
What Gary Lineker should or should not be allowed to say matters not a jot when set against the real scandal: that our national broadcaster could not care less about fairly representing both sides to contentious debates.
Law Professor David McGrogan is puzzled by Alastair Campbell’s moral grandstanding over Lineker, given his role in compiling the 'Dodgy Dossier' and his attacks on a BBC journalist when he was Tony Blair's comms chief.
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
Law professor David McGrogan was astonished to see the words "Choo Choo i’m a Train” on the side of a replacement bus service yesterday. Let's stop pretending the collapse of basic services is just a bit of a laugh.
Law professor David McGrogan has spent Christmas in Japan, where the masked up population still lives in mortal fear of catching Covid, in spite of government efforts to get them to return to normal.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has written to Elon Musk urging him to suppress ‘misinformation’ on Twitter, i.e., anything that challenges the narrative on Covid vaccines, climate change and the War in Ukraine.
If the law is going to be changed to stop PayPal demonetising people whose political views it disapproves of, it’s vital we get the law right. Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor of Law, has a cunning plan.
The introduction of VAR technology into football has managed to make the original problem – pundits and managers criticising referees’ ‘wrong’ decisions – even worse, while also generating fresh problems of its own.
Boris, Hancock, Whitty and the rest who drove the lockdowns will never admit they were wrong as it would be psychologically devastating for them. But in time the world will silently resolve the measures were mistaken.
The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.
The British Bill of Rights will sort out a number of the problems created by Blair's ill-conceived Human Rights Act and ensure the sovereignty of Parliament is accorded much greater respect by judges.
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