Content in the topic of Rights and Freedoms
Government's asylum proposals a moral and political failure
Campaigners have branded Shabana Mahmood's sweeping new reforms to the UK's immigration and asylum systems a "moral failure" and a "profound misjudgment of political strategy".Write to your paper to highlight the impact of Brexit on the Budget Calls to leave ECHR asking for more damage to Britain
Calls for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are "asking for even more damage" to Britain, campaigners have warned.What does the victory for Babiš in Czechia tell us about populism?
Over the weekend, Czechia became the latest country to elect a populist prime minister. Self-styled Trumpist Andrej Babiš, albeit a centre-right version, completed his political comeback by winning more than a third of the vote, ousting the pro-European coalition led by Petr Fiala. Babiš now appears poised to join Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia in opposing the European Union’s efforts to bolster Ukraine in its war against Russian aggression.Reform UK plan to scrap settled status ‘unconscionably cruel’
Reform UK have said they would abolish indefinite leave to remain in the UK which campaigners have warned would be not only "economically devastating but unconscionably cruel".Tice proposal would be the end of powersharing in NI
Campaigners have criticised suggestions that changes could be made to the Good Friday Agreement without the consent of nationalists in Northern Ireland so that the UK could leave the European Convention of Human Rights.What the Norwegian Election could teach Starmer
Try and picture this. A Labour Party flailing in the polls less than a year before an election, a centre-right Conservative party decimated by a radical right alternative, a wealth tax on the front pages, a fragmented party system, and no mainstream party daring to mention the EU. Easy right? Except on Monday it was the Norwegian Labour Party overturning an eight point deficit in the polls to win a general election and fight off the right-wing populist threat. So what happened?Nottingham Post ban: Reform UK confuse accountability with activism
Campaigners have criticised Reform UK for "confusing accountability with activism" over the Nottinghamshire council leader's refusal to speak to the Nottingham Post.ECHR essential to NI peace deal
The ECHR is an "essential safeguard" to the Good Friday Agreement, campaigners have stressed, amid urgent warnings the "radical right is playing on fears around immigration to remove protections from all UK citizens".What lessons can be learnt from the rise of Europe’s radical right?
The summer of 2025 has been marked by rising nationalism both at home and abroad. From the much-discussed “Raise the colours” campaign to the weaponisation of vulnerable asylum seekers, we have seen the increasing normalisation of a dark political ideology within mainstream politics.