Quaker Political Interference Has Got Out of Control
12 April 2025
News Round-Up
12 April 2025
by Will Jones
A Colombian migrant who committed 27 offences to fund his drug and drink habit and who violated a restraining order against his former partner has avoided deportation under ECHR human rights rules for "family life".
A woman has been prosecuted for holding a sign saying "here to talk, if you want to" outside a UK abortion clinic. That is not harassment and should not be crime, says Laura Perrins. We must have the right to persuade.
Keir Starmer should set aside the European Convention on Human Rights and deport all foreign criminals, Labour MP Jonathan Brash has said, as Left-wing voices opposing the 'criminal rights' charter grow.
An Albanian man who tried to enter Britain illegally four times before being jailed for cannabis farming has avoided deportation after a judge ruled he did not meet the legal definition of a "foreign criminal".
A Pakistani man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and lived in Britain illegally for 11 years was allowed to stay after he claimed he was gay, despite offering no evidence.
Yet another report – this time from the Human Rights Commission – has found that Australia's Covid response caused significant harm. But there's a blind spot, says Rebekah Barnett: the vaccine mandates get a pass.
Can utilitarianism adequately underpin free speech, or do we need natural rights, as per the US Declaration of Independence? But don't natural rights require a God? Prof James Allan and Dr Will Jones go head-to-head.
The asylum courts have gone, to use the technical term, nuts, says legal expert Dr David McGrogan. The real problem is human rights 'law' which, properly speaking, is not law at all, but raw judicial whim.
Lord Hermer is less than forthcoming about his radical past. But documents seen by the Daily Sceptic show that his involvement in 'anti-fascist' magazine Searchlight continued long into his career as a lawyer.
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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