Niccolò Machiavelli
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Rough statecraft
Biden’s Machiavellian moment
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
