Kevin Myers
May 2021: Letters to the Editor
Slaves and sources
Cancelled, Irish style
The truth about woke witchhunts is that there is no ethic of forgiveness in this religion
The bracing blast of a dissident
In his coverage of Northern Ireland in this memoir, Kevin Myers was unflinchingly critical of British ineptitude
You get what you vote for
Irish voters need Irish journalists to tell them what Sinn Fein really is
Pensions or the planet?
Fund managers are torn between maximising clients’ savings and saving the Earth
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”
Inside the memory of 9/11
Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today
“No happiness in life”: a very Russian outlook
How endless optimism can make it difficult when confronted with unpleasant choices
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”
The Northern Ireland Protocol partly repeals the Act of Union
The High Court in Belfast confirms the Protocol’s constitutional vandalism. We will settle this in the Supreme Court
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
Fifty years of easy money
Having gold as an anchor may not be perfect, but it does prevent the enormous expansion of public debt