Are we really all 'progressing' towards a happy future, where technology unites humanity in a world without borders? Dr. David McGrogan isn't convinced and sets out his own predictions for the future.
Forget hate speech laws, says Dr David McGrogan. Speech in the workplace is already micromanaged in intolerable ways by employment law – and it's getting worse.
Rishi Sunak has once again been dropping hints about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. This is not credible, says Dr David McGrogan: such a feat would require a Government far more serious than this one.
David McGrogan, who attended the NatCon conference in London last year, marvels at the sheer stupidity of the Brussels mayors who tried to shut down this year's conference. Why give NatCon all that free publicity?
With the rise of woke authoritarianism it's not that we are not becoming more like China, argues Dr David McGrogan, but that we are becoming more like ourselves as the dark inner logic of secular modernity pushes through.
The ECHR's discovery of a human right to be protected from climate change is the culmination of decades of overreach in what human rights law requires at the expense of democracy, says Dr David McGrogan.
If the ECHR can decide that a failure by states to protect citizens against the 'harms' of climate change is a human rights violation, it can decide that anything is, and democracy is undermined, says Dr David McGrogan.
The problem with the United Nations' vision of 'human rights', as set out recently by the High Commissioner, is that it amounts to the right to do exactly what you're told and never vary from it, says Dr. David McGrogan.
Since the 1980s, modern states have become increasingly squeamish about infringing the 'human rights' of violent criminals, even at the expense of their own populations. Why is that, asks Dr David McGrogan.
The Human Rights Act 1998 was a judicialisation of politics, says Dr David McGrogan. "It transfers political decisions away from democratic processes and into the courts, where it will be unsullied by the electorate."
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