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
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
