Brian Moore
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
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look