James Allan and Chris Kenny are wrong

Conservatives have long, and rightly, been wary of legislating for human rights—seeing all such legislation as a tool in the hands of unelected left-wing activist judges. Which is why I provoked a howl of outrage in these pages from James Allan when I proposed a minimalist bill of rights, based on the US First Amendment, covering just four freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.