Tensions in Ireland were bound to boil over
The Irish have had enough of being lectured
Ireland’s modern reformation
One cannot shed a faith without adopting another
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
