Owen Polley
Owen Polley is a writer and commentator based in Northern Ireland
Irish nationalism’s intolerant distaste for Britishness
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s green-tinged agenda
Any colour you want as long as it’s a rainbow
The strange case of Ulster’s most intolerant sect, the Alliance party
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat