Artillery Row
Sinn Fein and European Values
Brussels shuns Poland’s and Hungary’s governments – but will happily break bread with Sinn Fein.
Not just democracy
Hong Kong protestors are fighting for British-style institutions
Oscars so woke?
Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Free speech in an uncivil society
A climate of intolerance is threatening the pursuit of reason.
You get what you vote for
Irish voters need Irish journalists to tell them what Sinn Fein really is
Kirk Douglas and cancel culture
Do we believe all stories as true, or presume innocence until proven guilty?
Remembering George Steiner
Today Arendt is only read by academic cultists – Steiner by the public
Why Iowa will haunt the Democrats
America’s progressive party is stuck inside a meme that has gone viral — and for all the wrong reasons
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved