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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
