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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined