John McGuirk
John McGuirk is an Irish writer and political commentator. He is Editor in chief of Gript.ie, an Irish conservative news and comment platform. He was also a leader of the unsuccessful campaign against the introduction of abortion in 2018, and the successful campaign to reject the Lisbon Treaty in 2008. @john_mcguirk
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
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza