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 martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes