Sir Noel Malcolm

SIR NOEL MALCOLM is a British Historian whose research interests include the history of Western knowledge of and ideas about Islam and the Ottoman Empire from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. He read History and English Literature at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was a research student at Trinity College, Cambridge, writing a doctoral thesis on Thomas Hobbes. He began his career as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he was then political columnist and, subsequently, Foreign Editor of The Spectator, then chief political columnist of The Daily Telegraph. Since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published books on, among other subjects, early modern philosophy (with an emphasis on Hobbes) and the history and culture of the Balkans.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL WRONGS

Let me begin by saying that I am not an academic lawyer. I was asked by a think tank in London called Policy Exchange to write a pamphlet on human rights law and the concept of human rights, and I agreed to do this because the concept was something I

2019.05.11.

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