The number and proportion of conflicts around the world with a religious dimension is increasing. In 2001, 44 per cent; in 2013, 60 per cent.
Even had he been found completely guilty of all allegations, it still wouldn’t be acceptable for the police in misuse their powers in this way.
“Damian was my Parliamentary neighbour for many years – he’s denied it, I believe him.”
Thirty thousand people a year are imprisoned in awful conditions, without any release date, and with no trial or judicial oversight.
It ought to be focused on those areas that the public really care about and where it can meaningfully offer useful policy ideas.
Britain should call in the Burmese ambassador, suspend its training programme with the Burma Army, and continue to press at the UN.
David Lammy and the Social Mobility Commission both made a big splash on the basis of weak evidence and flawed assumptions.
The final piece in our five-part series on ConHome on a new Manifesto to Strengthen Families, which was launched in Parliament this week.
After we leave the EU, there will still be cross-border disputes that individuals and businesses need to settle.
There is a specific problem in Pakistan, especially where the majority of the Christians and Hindus respectively live, about non-Muslims being viewed as inferior.
“We’re badly trailing in the polls. Corbyn’s up and you’re down. You hired me to get things done and tell you how I see it. Here goes.”
Put harshly, it can be the ideology of the free-rider, the citizen who neglects the demands of citizenship.
Our new report argues that the Government must focus on security, climate change, human rights, and other shared international agendas and challenges.
Plans to make rehabilitation the primary legal purpose of the system seem to have been dropped after the general election.
As Patten says, the Joint Declaration gives us a specific responsibility to ensure that China’s promises are upheld – which we are not meeting.