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
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
