Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is a journalist and historian specialising in 20th century Irish history
You get what you vote for
Irish voters need Irish journalists to tell them what Sinn Fein really is
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie