Owen Polley
Owen Polley is a writer and commentator based in Northern Ireland. He tweets at @3000Versts
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
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
