Dublin
Tensions in Ireland were bound to boil over
The Irish have had enough of being lectured
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
