Northern Ireland
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Why the election was good for Unionism
A diversity of voices will help rather than hinder the cause
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
The DUP’s accidental ally
UUP failures are keeping DUP hopes alive
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
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
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
