Mugabe
Mugabe and Me
From bonding over jokes about Jesuit teachers to becoming a persona non grata, David Smith recalls his relationship with Robert Mugabe
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division