Seamus Heaney
A trip to Heaney country
The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?