Holocaust
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Taking on ISIS and Eichmann
Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama
Dear Eddy…
Failing to confront anti-Semitism can allow it to spread
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Why central Europe has always mattered
Globalism is nothing new
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
History to be heeded
The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today
A new front in the memory wars
We should celebrate achievements, not just condemn vice
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
