Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
Labour and the ECHR
Labour’s affection for the European Convention on Human Rights is on the wane
Canada has chosen managed decline
How on Earth has the Liberal Party won again?
Criticising judges
If a judge cannot tolerate public scrutiny, they have no business being a judge
The two-tier justice row
What did MPs think addressing racial disparities meant, if not introducing measures based on race?
Free thinking
Is true liberty a matter of independence or non-interference?
We should hail the cab-rank rule
The principle that barristers should accept any brief is all too easily sidestepped
Let the people decide
Libel actions once heard by juries are now exclusively tried by judges alone
Finding true north
Quite unintentionally, Trump has provoked a revival in Canadian nationalism
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
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
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality