Ireland
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
Alastair Campbell has it backwards on Ireland
The British government was too indulgent of Irish nationalists
Tensions in Ireland were bound to boil over
The Irish have had enough of being lectured
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
