Republic of Ireland
Irish reunification is a Remainer pipe dream
The Republic would be in no way equipped to absorb loyalist communities against their will
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
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
Count your #blessings
A guide to drawing up a healthy resentment list
Conflict and the need for clarity
On equalities and rights
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
The police are enabling Islamic intolerance
Where can we provoke if not at Speakers’ Corner?
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
The war for warmth
Russia is sending General Winter west
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
Inclusion isn’t a dirty word
Conservatism is the really inclusive worldview, because it offers us rules to live by