Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Priest of the Phallus
Lawrence’s skewed sexual politics and its legacy in the porn industry
Spanish Sketches
Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely
Running out of Road
Protestant population decline and the political short-sightedness of unionism
Against Mystique
National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness
Witness to Revival
Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism
Beyond A Joke
A Tale Told by an Idiot: Jordan Peterson’s daring fictional gambit
The Authentic Voice
An examination of Italian cinematic neorealism and its artistic antecedents
See Here
The great photographers caught through the lens of a playful semantics
Comings and Goings
The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry
Guinness and Chips
A diary of English high society that is high on snobbery but low on insight
Who’s for a U-turn?
Why unionists might be better off thinking, and doing, the unthinkable
The Inflection Point
Literacy in religious thinking may be necessary to tackle the world crisis