Irish Backstop
What do we do with the the Irish border?
Professor Katy Hayward tells us what Dublin and Brussels want us to hear
EU, mind your own business!
Does the EU genuinely fear a backdoor into its single market?
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
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people