They (often) don’t want help
Unless we accept uncomfortable truths, we will continue to see people die on the streets
Christopher Hitchens and the culture war
Where would the late ciceronian speaker have fit into today’s polemical battles?
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
