Over at Australia’s Quadrant, the good doctor weighs in on Starmer’s corruption scandal, the proliferation of rights, and the problematic acceptance of foul language.

At any rate, the very word rights has a tendency to dissolve proper distinctions in the minds of many. Once a tangible benefit has been declared a right, it enters a different metaphysical sphere from that in which most of human life is conducted. If I have a right to something tangible in the possessive sense, then no one and no state of society has a right to deny it me.