Republic of Ireland
Bad manners come in small packages
The new Ireland dislikes Unionists as much as the old one
Cancelled, Irish style
The truth about woke witchhunts is that there is no ethic of forgiveness in this religion
What’s the EU really trying to do with the Protocol?
Brussels isn’t living up to the commitments it made
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole
A bit late now
Ireland’s crumbling defences against Sinn Fein
Policing History
Official Ireland surrenders to Sinn Fein’s history
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
No friend indeed
The feminist fix: how to expose mansplainers like Billy Bragg who only pretend to be feminist allies
Boris must act on immigration
It is the issue that most concerns his supporters
The second gender war
After a year of progress, “conversion therapy ban” law threatens to resurrect bad gender policy all over again
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Dante, 700 years on
We, too, are exiled from Florence
Debunking myths of the Great Divergence
Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention
Ring of fire
The ENO’s production of The Valkyrie may lack flames, but it is convincing nonetheless