Despite a retreat from the egregious overreach seen in earlier drafts, the WHO's proposed Pandemic Accords will still give the WHO control over how future pandemics are managed, warns campaign group UsForThem.
Rishi Sunak has once again been dropping hints about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. This is not credible, says Dr David McGrogan: such a feat would require a Government far more serious than this one.
A prayer ban imposed at Katharine Birbalsingh’s school that was challenged by a Muslim pupil is lawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
With the rise of woke authoritarianism it's not that we are not becoming more like China, argues Dr David McGrogan, but that we are becoming more like ourselves as the dark inner logic of secular modernity pushes through.
Forget the old ladies of Switzerland. The real winners from the ECHR climate verdict are green billionaires. They groom journalists and politicians to promote Net Zero – and even run re-education courses for judges.
A group of senior Swiss women has succeeded in getting the ECHR to declare that addressing climate change is a human right. Yet the Swiss are living longer than ever, even as the summers gently warm, says Ben Pile.
The ECHR's discovery of a human right to be protected from climate change is the culmination of decades of overreach in what human rights law requires at the expense of democracy, says Dr David McGrogan.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Swiss Government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change.
If the ECHR can decide that a failure by states to protect citizens against the 'harms' of climate change is a human rights violation, it can decide that anything is, and democracy is undermined, says Dr David McGrogan.
The problem with the United Nations' vision of 'human rights', as set out recently by the High Commissioner, is that it amounts to the right to do exactly what you're told and never vary from it, says Dr. David McGrogan.
