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
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
It’s time to build prisons
Inadequate facilities hurt everyone
Uncommon entrance
Hector’s Common Entrance is looming
Do not go gently after that bad knight
It’s easy to criticise Blair — and fun, too!