Kilkenny
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
