Churchill myths and bad history are no reason to defend the ECHR Opinion Defenders of the European Convention on Human Rights, from John Major to Keir Starmer, have peddled the fallacy that Winston Churchill was the brains behind it. He was no such thing, argues Yuan Yi Zhu Six decades after his passing, the legend of Sir Winston Churchill remains undiminished. Almost all of his contemporaries have faded [...]
How the Human Rights Act makes Britain harder to govern Opinion The Human Rights Act undermines Britain’s parliamentary democracy and common law tradition by placing the protection of human rights onto an unstable, frequently unknowable basis, says Yuan Yi Zhu In 1999, to protect victims of sexual assault from degrading treatment, parliament enacted legislation to protect complainants in sexual assault cases from being cross-examined in court [...]
