The US rightly considers it to be the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror – and it has too often played a malicious role in the geopolitical morass of the Arab world.
“In specific, localised cases, race, religion and culture are a factor.”
The Government’s refreshed strategy for addressing Violence against Women and Girls doesn’t do enough to help one particular at-risk group.
Women are the most important group of swing voters in the EU referendum campaign: Harriet Harman has a point.
The worst of the ideas associated with ‘multiculturalism’ have been pursued at a time when societal integration should have been the mantra.
One of my constituents asked me: what’s the point of having MPs if they can’t make this sort of decision? He was right.
What Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes won is now being frittered away.
This International Women’s Day, across the globe women are coming together to Pledge for Parity.
It will achieve next to nothing – other than enabling non-violent extremists to paint it as the British state “criminalising Shariah.”
The ‘ask’ of the WASPI campaign is astronomically expensive, and open to legal challenge on equality grounds by men. Better to be honest about it.
We need a new law to defend the vulnerable victims of sex trafficking.
To her detractors, she is a loud-mouthed yob. But this brilliant official has become a vital figure in the campaign against Islamist extremism.
Of course, sexual violence can be perpetrated by people of all backgrounds but that does not mean in that specific cases, race, religion and culture are not a factor.
The ability to leverage a nation’s influence through international networks and institutions is key to promoting the national interest in the modern world.