Briefings
What we put in front of Parliament
Each of these was written for Members, Ministers and officials rather than for you. They are published here anyway, in full, because a document that only circulates by email can be neither checked nor used by anybody outside the room.
Every one says what it is asking for on the first screen, and every one carries the file that gets attached to an email. If you want to do something with one, the useful move is almost never to send it on. It is to write to the Member who represents you and name the ask you want them to raise.
The case for an Artistic Freedom Bill
UK law protects free expression in universities but contains no equivalent statutory duty, oversight body, or right of redress for the creative and cultural sector, a gap thrown into sharp relief by the treatment of musician Boy George following his public support for Jewish communities and Israel in July 2026.
A university lecturer who expresses a lawful political opinion has a statutory duty, a regulator and a route to redress standing behind them. A performer who expresses the same opinion has a contract that can be ended by a phone call. That asymmetry is the whole of the argument, and it is in front of you because closing it starts with something ordinary people can actually do: an APPG needs a Chair, four officers and twenty Members, and Members respond to their own constituents.
- Anti-antisemitism
- Israel advocacy
- law
- advocacy
- institutions
- antisemitism
- arts
Reviewing the Islamic Centre of England and the wider IRGC-linked institutional network
An entity cannot plausibly claim charitable protection while operating under structural influence from actors or ideological chains associated with a hostile state apparatus that the UK itself has identified as a national-security threat.
This is not an argument about theology and it is not an argument about Muslim charities. It is an argument about coherence: one arm of government has named a structure as a threat while another goes on conferring administrative legitimacy on bodies aligned with it. Coherence is exactly the kind of thing a Member can raise in a written question, and written questions are how this moves.
- Anti-antisemitism
- law
- advocacy
- institutions
- security
- civil-society