Henry Hemming
Henry Hemming is the author of Four Shots in the Night. He tweets at @henryhemming
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Humza Yousaf, global citizen
Britain needs one, and only one, foreign policy
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse