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
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
It should have been Jezza
A neutral and unbiased guide to persecuting the problematic
Toxic relationship
For a long time, it has seemed that you’re nobody until somebody’s tried to get you cancelled
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
A misguided election briefing
The Church must recognise there are Christians on both the left and right of politics
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal