Northern Ireland
The real cowspiracy
Politicians fiddle as a beef cartel leaves farmers in existential crisis
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Populism on the march
As populism advances on both sides of the channel, we ask if it can make the shift from insurgent movement to governing project
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape