Public Ethics

The UK's new asylum policy grants refugees only 30 months' protection, after which they face repeated deportation reviews for up to two decades.

The government claims this is what refugee protection was always meant to look like. But in our latest post, Bradley Hillier-Smith argues that understanding the full range of harms and injustices faced by refugees leads to a very different conclusion.

UK Refugee Protection 2026: Does the 30-Month Limit Hold Up? The UK now grants refugees just 30 months' protection, after which they face deportation review, repeated every 30 months for up to 20 years. The government claims this reflects the true purpose of refugee protection. But does it? Hillier-Smith argues that understanding the full range of harms and i...

New post: Planning for War’s Aftermath.

David Clark discusses when and why having (or lacking) a postwar plan affects whether going to war can be justified.

Postwar Planning: Exploring the Ethics of War's Aftermath How does having or lacking a postwar plan matter for the justification of resorting to war in the first place?

"What, if anything, is morally wrong with emotional-authorial outsourcing? I worry that by engaging in such outsourcing, we not only risk wronging others, but also risk wronging ourselves".

Pascal L. Mowla writes about the moral dangers of outsourcing emotional labour to generative AI.

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