Henry McDonald
Henry McDonald is the author of seven books on the Northern Ireland troubles and two critically acclaimed novels.
The silence that tells Joe Biden who his real allies are
Irish reluctance to support Ukraine presents Unionists with an opportunity to counter American Brit-bashing over the Protocol reforms
Border skirmishes
No actor has done more to endanger the future of Northern Ireland than the European Commission
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed