Fintan O’Toole
Cancelled, Irish style
The truth about woke witchhunts is that there is no ethic of forgiveness in this religion
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness