Fine Gael
Ireland turns to the looney left
The Irish presidential election betrays a divided country where many feel left behind
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)