Northern Ireland
Boris’s baby problem
Why does the government want so much abortion in Ulster?
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
Any colour you want as long as it’s a rainbow
The strange case of Ulster’s most intolerant sect, the Alliance party
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
Policing History
Official Ireland surrenders to Sinn Fein’s history
The real cowspiracy
Politicians fiddle as a beef cartel leaves farmers in existential crisis
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
