Irish gothic
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
