Features
Low panic at high table
The Christ Church coup attempt is fast morphing into a much darker fiasco
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
Belfast’s best-kept secret
John Self welcomes the reissue of three works by Brian Moore, one of Northern Ireland few novelists who can stand toe-to-toe with the contemporary greats
A town called Egmont
A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility
What will Net Zero cost?
Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
National distrust
Like the monasteries, the National Trust has long since strayed from its purpose. It’s time for reformation or dissolution
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
