Belfast
Provocation on a flagpole
The nationalists in charge of Belfast don’t feel constrained by the qualms of unionists or Jews
Belfast’s Irish language vanity project
As Belfast crumbles, the council is splurging £2 million on promoting the Irish language
The plague of “street art”
It is the local council equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter