Martin O'Reilly
Martin O'Reilly is a freelance writer on politics, culture and bioethics. He tweets at @oreil_m
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce