Catherine Connolly
The Irish establishment pretend the Right doesn’t exist
Conservative candidates couldn’t even get their names on the ballot
Ireland turns to the looney left
The Irish presidential election betrays a divided country where many feel left behind
The annexation election
The Irish Presidential contest contains yet more republican provocations
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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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?