A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The limits of Rishi Sunak’s words
Negotiations between the government and the DUP are riddled with problems
How to fix Brexit
A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer
On Mount Nebo’s crest
The political life of David Trimble
The myth of the latest thing
Can Northern Irish politics evolve beyond nationalism and republicanism?
Sink Michael Gove’s Irish Sea border
The NIP is destroying the Belfast Agreement before it’s even fully implemented
Sinn pain
Sinn Fein has gained the top spot in Irish politics despite its violent past
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
