Alexei Navalny
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Amnesty International is wrong to brand Alexei Navalny an anti-hero
The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave
The return of Alexei Navalny
As much as Navalny believes in his work, he believes more strongly in the need to be a participant in Russia’s political drama
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
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
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
