Ireland
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
Who backed the backstop?
No one wants to own Boris’s Northern Ireland Protocol
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
The Scullabogue martyrs
A S H Smyth remembers his Quaker ancestors killed June 5, during the Irish rebellion of 1798
Free State or failed state?
The collapse of the Irish party system is news, there and abroad
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
