Sovereignty
Against constitutional obscurantism
Sorry, Parliament is sovereign
The case for a vocal king
Why Charles should speak his mind
Linked but not combined
In sentiment – if not in its detail – the deal echoes Churchill’s vision for Britain and Europe
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
