Cameron was right to revise the Ministerial Code

Writing for Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, Professor John Finnis sets out why the Prime Minister was right to remove reference to ‘international law’.

No surveillance on the scale proposed. But politicians should lead on terror warrants. The Investigatory Powers Bill.

We agonise about how much oversight the state should have over us. But government is only going where others can also go, and often do.

Peter Walker: Abuse, spitting, jostling, violence – and a failure of leadership by Greater Manchester Police

As a former deputy chief constable, I saw this week how they failed to plan properly for the Conservative Conference – and, worse still, change their tactics.

Simon Calvert: Putin would be proud of the Government’s anti-extremism plan

Extremism Disruption Orders are draconian and unnecessary: the Government is already equipped with a bristling arsenal of anti-terror legislation.

Nick de Bois: We need early intervention as well as tough sentencing to cut knife crime

It is going up again in London, and government needs to do more to ensure that the voluntary sector can deliver fully on prevention.

WATCH: Cameron on migration – “Britain is a moral nation and we will fulfill our moral responsibilities”

“The people most responsible for the terrible scenes we see are President Assad, the butchers of ISIL and the people running these criminal gangs.”

The routine harassment of women is a daily offence against liberty

Women have their freedom of movement curtailed in ways that most men don’t even have to think about.

Whatever you think of adultery, the Ashley Madison hackers are wrong

From moralising hackers online to ‘Sharia patrols’ on London streets, we should not tolerate extra-legal ethical coercion in any form.

Adam Simmonds: Why we must reform Stop and Search

The equivalent of 250,000 people every year are stopped and subjected to hugely intrusive searches without the police sticking to the rules.

Why we need to take note of America’s heroin epidemic

If the trend of the last decade continues, it won’t be long before America has a million active heroin users.

Steve Chalke: How the Church could be reconciled to Gove’s British Bill of Rights

What if instead of a narrative concentrated on restricting human rights, the Government argued instead that in some key respects they haven’t gone far enough?

The challenge of synthetic drugs in a free society

The pace of innovation is now so fast that the authorities have trouble keeping up with it.

Heresy of the week: Litter, self-esteem and why we could do with less of both

What explains the persistence of littering when most other forms of anti-social behaviour are in decline?

WATCH: Nigel Evans calls for anonymity for those accused of rape

“There is no absolutely no appreciation at all for the awful trauma the accused faces,” he explains.

Rebecca Coulson: America should know better than to use the death penalty

It can be necessary to kill, in self-defence or war. But to do so after consideration with the potential victim under arrest? It’s an abuse of power.