People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history

Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)

Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant

We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”

It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment

Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message

As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood

British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense

History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence

The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland