Philip Ó Ceallaigh
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia