Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Republicans in Northern Ireland still hate the police
Greater Catholic representation has been thwarted by nationalist hostility
Is Reform committed to the Union?
Nigel Farage should take the United Kingdom more seriously
There is another side to the “Stakeknife” story
The security forces might have made mistakes but their work was still invaluable
Provocation on a flagpole
The nationalists in charge of Belfast don’t feel constrained by the qualms of unionists or Jews
Forty years of mistakes in Northern Ireland
Unionists were abandoned in 1985 and are being abandoned now
Republican moralists are total hypocrites
Are unionist parties in Northern Ireland at last standing up to Sinn Fein?
Ireland turns to the looney left
The Irish presidential election betrays a divided country where many feel left behind
The annexation election
The Irish Presidential contest contains yet more republican provocations
Is Jihad Al-Shamie a victim?
By the logic of progressives in Northern Ireland, the synagogue attacker may also be the injured party
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working