Ireland
Why Ireland’s blasphemy law needed to go
Insult for its own sake is childish and banal, but the ability to strongly criticise any creed is absolutely vital in a healthy democracy
A feast, plain and simple
You wait ages for a decent Irish cookbook, then two arrive together, says Melanie McDonagh
The freedom to achieve freedom
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed 99 years ago this week. As Brexit talks enter the last lap, Nigel Jones argues that the Treaty could offer a model to follow
Amnesty and political prisoners in Ireland
Human rights organisations in Ireland are calling for the disenfranchisement of those who do not share their political views
The liberal hero who sealed in Ulster’s sectarianism
John Hume, 1937-2020
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
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
