Christmas Present
Jotting and plotting
Real gardeners need to keep a journal
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
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
