The Home Secretary, for example, has the power to change the rules. Between Parliament’s absolute power, and the broad powers delegated to ministers – a Government has the ability to act very quickly and very decisively. But will it?
Our education system in Northern Ireland is a benign form of apartheid, which is fundamentally damaging to our society. We are prepared to operate a system which separates our children almost entirely on the basis of their religion…And then we are surprised that we continue to have a divided society.
Courses are deeply infused with Critical Social Justice (CSJ) ideology, promoting gender ideology, identity politics, and ‘inclusion’ narratives regardless of whether at odds with child safeguarding that was noted by Cass.
The succession of Blairite governments that have run Britain over the past three decades put in place a judicial apparat that now serves as a rampart against change.
Here are four clauses for a potential Bill of Rights which, if included, would get us as close as our constitution can get to American free-speech protections.
We can argue what gender ideology’s “Mr Bates vs The Post Office” moment was, but a biological male towering over the women he’d unfairly robbed of a gold swimming medal or a multiple rapist with everything intact in a women’s prison are strong contenders.
Badenoch rightly highlights her work as Equalities Minister, while Sunak deserves credit for blocking gender recognition legislation in Scotland. But the ambiguities in the Equality Act should have been dealt with long ago.
The issues that MPs highlight often come back to a simple, but root cause: reaction speed. There is a feeling that the party, and more specifically Badenoch’s leadership, is too slow.
Their plans will undermine and blur accountability and worst of all they will exacerbate and create more competing legitimacies within the British State.
2024 is the year we learnt the limits of judicialisation and the legal-state. It’s hard not to see why when (and despite it being years in the making) 2024 in the West, was the worst case of omnipresent judicial-excess since contemporary jurisprudence first developed.
The sovereignty of Parliament, as the representative of the people, has been eroded, and power handed to an increasingly assertive bureaucracy.
To insist that judges must have the final say would displace Parliament’s proper role as the ultimate decision-maker in our constitution.
Only by improving this Bill, and by delivering on the Prime Ministers’ pledge to stop the boats, can we assert with confidence that the people’s will has prevailed.
The Supreme Court could only decide it had the power to strike down legislation if it already possessed that power. Authority cannot be established by appeal to itself.
We can learn a lot from Blair – about party management, sensing the public mood, and telling a story that connects. But he is not to be admired or revered and it was a mistake to leave his legacy untouched when our party could’ve changed it.