Leo Varadkar
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Fathers of the republic
A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland
Cancelled, Irish style
The truth about woke witchhunts is that there is no ethic of forgiveness in this religion
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
