O’Connell believed in the separation of church and state. In 1837 he denounced traditionalist Don Carlos, fearing he would restore ‘that disastrous connection between church and state which for two centuries has plunged Spain into the deepest moral degradation’.
What’s alive and what’s dead in the thought of Isaiah Berlin? A new book argues there is plenty of mileage left in the arch fox.
Who is the Moses who will lead Europe? Marsh’s candidate is Germany. Not ideal, Marsh knows, but better than nothing, he seems to say.
Though manipulation is as old as Adam and Eve and the serpent, it has taken on a new salience in our time. Social media has democratised manipulation, putting techniques of persuasion and deception, once monopolised by large corporations and states,…
Investigative journalist Ian Cobain uncovers Whitehall’s secret efforts to manipulate the Fourth Estate.
Another look at the rise and fall of modern Britain from the postwar ‘golden age’ to the decay that set in following the ‘winter of discontent’ of the late 1970s.
Stubbornness and resistance under pressure became Hume’s and Trimble’s common strengths in withstanding attacks from inside and outside their respective political camps.
Leo Varadkar was a paradox, the quintessential Tory Boy who oversaw massive increases in welfare spending. His sudden, unexpected departure from politics only adds to his enigma.
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future, by Philip Stephens, Faber & Faber, 320 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0571381470 Philip Stephens’s These Divided Isles is bookended by what surely represents the high watermark of modern Anglo-Irish relations: Queen Elizabeth II’s 2011 state visit to Dublin. The event was widely hailed as symbolic of the…
One of the strangest things about our current moment is the seemingly abrupt right turn of the tech industry in support of the Trump administration’s authoritarian project. This is especially unsettling for Irish people, long used to being the affable middleman between a welcoming America and a more culturally inscrutable Europe. Those of us who…