Irish Backstop
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 case of Anna Soubry vs Amy Dalla Mura
Why are MPs considered unusually vulnerable and in need of protection from the criminal law?
Why I “took the knee”
Following a brief loss of balance in a London watering hole I ‘took the knee’ – but that doesn’t detract from the symbolism
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
The Long Hours: remembering David Oluwale
How one man’s English journey, begun in hope, turned into a nightmare
In defence of knowledge
Richard Ovenden’s new book is a passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge expressed through literature
America’s Popish Plot
The maze of lunacy surrounding one of the USA’s most outlandish conspiracy theories
Letter from Washington: Kamala Harris and the meaning of ‘moderate’
What the views of Biden’s VP pick say about America
People Need Borders
Louise Perry reviews Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries, by Frank Furedi
Why is the Anglosphere hated?
CANZUK deserves debate, not character assassination
Pond life with Mum
Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer