Rising above tribal instinct to deliver equality under the law is the foundation of civilisation. It is a habit hard to learn, and easy to forget.
As IDF generals, serving members of the Mossad, and elite combat reservists swell the ranks of opposition, his only allies are religious hardliners.
The European Court of Human Rights seems unlikely to block the Rwanda policy outright, but it could try to foul it up until after the next election.
The rise of interventions in cases by activist groups that aren’t party to the dispute since 1997 is a break with our common law traditions.
The need to review every deportee on a case-by-case basis gives campaign groups the chance to bog it down in legal trench warfare.
Courts left trying to work out whether benefit levels, pensions, or other cash transfers are enough to avoid poverty, with the public spending consequences not figuring at all.
With a referendum taken decisively off the table, there is now space to really take the fight to the SNP on their domestic record.
It will be difficult and controversial but do nothing substantial about our relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights.
If officers on the beat were the answer, Britain today would be safer than it was in the 1960s. Yet the data tell a very different story.
Her decision to refer the judgement to the Court of Appeal was ridiculed, but it has ruled that toppling statues is, in fact, illegal.
The Government will never be able to get a grip on crime if the infrastructure of prosecution has rotted away.
The new leader should review the Government’s current plans and focus limited time and political capital where it counts.
More work is needed to ensure proper protection for ex-servicemen and give victims’ families a chance at the truth.
For starters, a leader with integrity, a reasonably competent Cabinet, a less divisive tone, a new seriousness of purpose on policy and, in particular, some pragmatism on Europe.
In pursuit of the prosecution of Jimmy Lai, the pro-Beijing regime is dismantling the rule of law and breaking the Sino-British Declaration.