Cillian McGrattan
Dr Cillian McGrattan lectures in politics at Ulster University. He tweets at @cmcgrattan
Rewriting the past in Northern Ireland
Are the UK Research and Innovation Councils fit for purpose?
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence