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
Populism’s problem
The anti-elitism inherent in working-class, right-wing movements will prove their downfall
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
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Missionaries, not management consultants
As trust in the Church of England collapses, its leaders are prescribing more of the very managerialism that created the problem
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The problem with permanent secretaries
The role offers too much power with too little accountability
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
