Educational diversity in North Korea

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger

International institutions should not equate membership with morality

We must stop conflating international institutions with the ideals they profess to uphold, for the former rarely live up to the latter.

Spencer Pitfield: A UK Bill of Rights – the CPF’s first policy success in advance of the 2015 manifesto

Our discussion paper ‘A Magna Carta for 2015’ received a tremendous response from in excess of 200 CPF groups nationwide in July 2013.

Charlie Elphicke MP: We need responsibilities as well as rights – and to decide them ourselves

British judges in British courts should have the final say on British laws passed by the British Parliament.

Grayling takes the Conservatives to the brink of ECHR exit – a giant step away from Europe

Macmillan and Heath and Thatcher (in government, anyway) went one way. Now Cameron is going the other.

Chris Grayling MP: Our plan to protect human rights – while making the European Court advisory only

We hope they will accept our plans. But if they cannot, then we will invoke our treaty rights to withdraw from the Convention altogether,

Grayling’s message of toughness and tenderness

“It’s where we need to be as a Party. Tough but compassionate.”

Fiona Hodgson: Mass murder, missing loved ones, rape, grief, trauma. A terrible legacy in Bosnia.

A report from this year’s Project Maya.

Heresy of the week: A defence of ‘whataboutery’

Few questions do more to test and clarify arguments than ‘what about?’ – especially when it comes to matters of foreign policy.

Beware the bad conservatives

A new spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of populism.

Benedict Rogers: The new Foreign Secretary must show us that he’s more than a bean counter

The question for you in this Open Letter is whether you will continue, develop and deepen that Conservative pledge to put human rights at the heart of foreign policy.

The rise of the judges is a failure of democracy

Sweepingly-worded legislation passes power from elected leaders to unaccountable judges and the pressure groups whose cases they preside over.

Grieve suggests that we can’t both be in and out of the ECHR at the same time. He’s right.

For a government to legislate effectively to defy the court’s rulings while continuing to recognise its authority would be a contradiction in terms.

With Grieve gone, what next for the ECHR and the British Bill of Rights?

With the reshuffle barely over, noises are already being made about ditching the meddlesome Convention and Court. But how?

Edward Leigh MP: The lesson of these Euro-elections: Modernisation has failed. Get back to real conservatism. End the Coalition now.

My programme: Let grammars expand. Means-test incidental health costs. The Green Deal is a joke. Immigration is still a farce. Apologise for same sex marriage.