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Jan 14, 2025 | 
capx.co | Andrew Tettenborn
Free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of 'workers' rights' Experts are urging Labour to rethink elements of their Employment Rights Bill The Government is forcing employers to take on more than they can reasonably handle We always knew there would be fireworks over the Employment Rights Bill. The first problem blew up yesterday, over its plans vastly to extend employers’ liability for workplace harassment.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew Tettenborn
There’s always something that seems clinically compelling about a claim that we need yet more equality laws. Mary Prior KC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association and a proud working-class Potteries girl, has demanded that regional accents and social deprivation should be legally protected characteristics. At first sight it’s difficult to argue with the icy logic.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Andrew Tettenborn
There’s always something that seems clinically compelling about a claim that we need yet more equality laws. Mary Prior KC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association and a proud working-class Potteries girl, has demanded that regional accents and social deprivation should be legally protected characteristics. At first sight it’s difficult to argue with the icy logic.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
eurotopics.net | James Moore |Andrew Tettenborn |Jonty Bloom
The New European is puzzled as to how Reeves really envisions improved relations with the EU: “It would be nice to think that things have changed but as Rachel Reeves is making perfectly clear, nothing has changed at all. ... The old attitudes to the EU and the EC continue in British politics. We are negotiating from strength, they need us more than we need them, they will give us what we want, we can cherry-pick, and we will win everything, and they will get nothing. ...
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew Tettenborn
Education Minister Bridget Phillipson wants to make our schools engines of ambition and social mobility. Good for her. Unfortunately, some of the the advice she has received as to how to do this demonstrates one thing more than anything else: when it comes to class prejudice, it’s earnest bourgeois reformers who habitually head the pack.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Andrew Tettenborn
The East Riding of Yorkshire is flat, prosperously agricultural and slightly off the beaten track. Deeply conservative, it isn’t the place you would normally look for originality. Over the weekend, however, its county council announced an inspired experiment. It wants to see what happens if it gets rid of large numbers of its street lights. Not the lighting in town centres, you understand, but the endless lines of light-stalks you see on the main roads that wind their way between the cornfields.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew Tettenborn
The East Riding of Yorkshire is flat, prosperously agricultural and slightly off the beaten track. Deeply conservative, it isn’t the place you would normally look for originality. Over the weekend, however, its county council announced an inspired experiment. It wants to see what happens if it gets rid of large numbers of its street lights.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew Tettenborn
In Labour’s manifesto this year, Keir Starmer cannily sought to reassure any Brexiteers out there by ruling out a return to the EU single market. But, being a lawyer, he carefully inserted a small-print proviso. The Labour leader said that he did not rule out doing much the same thing by realigning Britain piecemeal with EU standards as opportunity presented itself.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Andrew Tettenborn
NEARLY 20 years ago a vicious Ugandan thug joined a group of Romanian hoodlums in attacking a rival gang in north London. One of the victims of the assault climbed into an ambulance in an attempt to get away. The attacking group simply went in after him and clubbed him to death amongst the life-saving equipment. Caught, sentenced to life and released after serving something over 16 years, the Ugandan was understandably served with a deportation order. An immigration judge however blocked it. Why?
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew Tettenborn
The fees English universities are allowed to charge home students in England are fixed by government fiat. At £9,250 per year, they are some of the most expensive in Europe. Shortly after the election Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson denied any plans to raise them. She appears to have changed her mind, saying the fee has been ‘eroded’ because it hasn’t gone up in a ‘very long time’.
