Sinn Fein
Bad manners come in small packages
The new Ireland dislikes Unionists as much as the old one
Sinn pain
Sinn Fein has gained the top spot in Irish politics despite its violent past
Appeasing lawlessness
The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is more interested in pandering than effective policing
Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
Can the Northern Ireland protocol be untangled?
The Protocol is strangling Northern Ireland’s economy and damaging the DUP’s re-election chances. What will Boris Johnson do about it?
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
A bit late now
Ireland’s crumbling defences against Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein and European Values
Brussels shuns Poland’s and Hungary’s governments – but will happily break bread with Sinn Fein.
A crooked eye
Sinn Fein, the press and the leadership contest which wasn’t reported
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
