Irish Politics
Forty years of mistakes in Northern Ireland
Unionists were abandoned in 1985 and are being abandoned now
Ireland’s growing democratic deficit
Restrictionists and social conservatives are not being represented
Ireland’s assault on encryption should concern us all
Between authoritarian politics and corporate self-interest, basic freedoms should be protected
Populism’s problem
The anti-elitism inherent in working-class, right-wing movements will prove their downfall
Trump and Musk are not helping right-wingers abroad
They do not understand that the MAGA template cannot be copied
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
Alastair Campbell has it backwards on Ireland
The British government was too indulgent of Irish nationalists
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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
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false