Ireland
Resoured relationships
Could the EU be about to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol again?
In defence of the Irish pathway to citizenship
Rather than opening doors to anyone, it affirms an old friendship
Free ride state
How the government opened an Irish backdoor to British citizenship
Inside the Irish anti-immigration movement
Economic instability could provide an opening for a populist party
Will Irish women be left with gender self-ID?
Trans activists in the Republic will not give up easily
Hypocrisy: the crack beneath Ireland’s craic
The “neutral” Republic relies on NATO while lecturing the world on human rights
An influential Irishman
John Field: Complete Nocturnes (DG)
Trump and Musk are not helping right-wingers abroad
They do not understand that the MAGA template cannot be copied
Northern Ireland epitomises Labour’s weakness
Starmer’s only tactic is concede, concede, concede
Most oppressed people ever
Irish neutrality denialism is just the latest way to remain downtrodden
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches