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
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Yahya Sinwar’s historic mistake
The Hamas leader signed the death warrant of his own cause
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late