The Troubles
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Leo Varadkar is a coward and a hypocrite
Tip-toeing around Republican crimes is obscuring modern history
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
The miracle of peace
Bill Clinton’s legacy in Northern Ireland
Rewriting the past in Northern Ireland
Are the UK Research and Innovation Councils fit for purpose?
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
From terrorism to triumph
Sinn Fein have nothing to offer Ireland but division
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
A literary pilgrimage to a watery grave
Following in the footsteps of the author J.G. Farrell
Gerry Adams was not in the IRA
This is not an article on the internet
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
