The Troubles
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
Donald Trump’s teachable moments
What lessons should today’s conservatives take from Trump?
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie
UK politics is a cartel closed to the young
Children and young adults are locked out of power and economic advantage
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
The death of Ideals
TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Celebrate our multi-ethnic democracy
Rakib’s Britain: the UK has given a golden opportunity to minority Brits, so why are we told patriotism isn’t for us?
Sacred memory
Brits have lost the habits of respect and reverence
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion