News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
The verdict is in, and it's not good news for Donald Trump. Or is it? Everything you need to know about the historic criminal conviction of a US President.
Judges are the world’s greatest confidence tricksters, says Dr. David McGrogan. Purporting to apply neutral law, in fact they impose their own politics via tendentious interpretations skewed towards elite biases.
Don't be fooled by bills of rights, warns Law Professor James Allan. They failed to stop lockdowns (everywhere) and are just tools of Leftist judicial activism.
Comedy environmentalist Jim Dale and Dale Vince have both suggested that climate 'denial' should be a criminal offence. Is this desperation because it's becoming so obvious the evidence is against them?
Civil servants are attempting to stop Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan by mounting a legal challenge to the legislation, arguing that international law is binding on them.
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.
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