Theo McDonald
Theo McDonald is a journalist based in Dublin. He tweets at @tbald101.
Inside the Irish anti-immigration movement
Economic instability could provide an opening for a populist party
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
