Sanctions Against Hungary
Sinn Fein and European Values
Brussels shuns Poland’s and Hungary’s governments – but will happily break bread with Sinn Fein.
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs