Jacinda Ardern
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
New Zealand’s election & the nation’s mother
ACT’s former leader explains why in Saturday’s general election the free market party is likely to see its best ever result
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
Sinn Fein’s victory brings new urgency to Protocol crisis
Northern Ireland Protocol looms over Ulster politics as the Nationalists threaten to upend business as usual in Belfast
Tough talk, no action on trans activist policy
While ministers wriggle out of responsibility, children are suffering
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Stormont desperately needs reform
The interests of Northern Irish voters are being sacrificed to the perceived needs of the peace process
Sibelius: 7 symphonies and Tapiola (Decca)
A fresh, ambitious and daring approach to the familiar Finn
Celebrating the cycle of life
The universal realities of life, love and death are at the core of the strength of the monarchy
Ukraine: Where’s the peace plan?
If we don’t create a road to peace, Ukraine may become another Syria
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality