Ireland
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
The DUP’s accidental ally
UUP failures are keeping DUP hopes alive
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
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
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
