Northern Ireland
Schrodinger’s deal
The Northern Ireland Protocol now exists in a state of quantum uncertainty
Rewriting the past in Northern Ireland
Are the UK Research and Innovation Councils fit for purpose?
Stormy waters in Belfast
Playing politics with the poor
Have the Tories forgotten Northern Ireland?
Its problems have not gone away
On Mount Nebo’s crest
The political life of David Trimble
The silence that tells Joe Biden who his real allies are
Irish reluctance to support Ukraine presents Unionists with an opportunity to counter American Brit-bashing over the Protocol reforms
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
Has the Tory left deserted Northern Ireland?
Conservatives must stop backing the disastrous NI protocol
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
