I’m not one to react nervously to doom-laden predictions, but I was a touch rattled last week when Geoffrey Hinton,...
September Articles
Kemi Badenoch is intelligent and tough … I’m glad I didn’t write her off
Listening to political speeches is normally hard to endure, but last week I went voluntarily to listen to the Leader...
Andy Burnham needs to remove his rose-tinted glasses and see the past as it really was
In 1975, when I joined the civil service through a competitive exam as a direct entry principal, Andy Burnham was...
Ireland is about to make its most shameful decision yet
Catherine Connolly, the presidential candidate, is in tune with the dangerously woke youth of her country Published:...
How the IRA Docklands Bomb caused good-natured Martin Mansergh and me to (briefly) clash
I first met Martin Mansergh – who died last week on a parliamentary trip to the Western Sahara – in the 1980s when he...
Irish establishment has conspired to avoid honest debate in president vote
The Irish Republic, my native country, is prone to being deeply smug about its successes. And for understandable...
Why Peter Mandelson remains a hero to victims of the Real IRA’s Omagh bomb in 1998
“I went for dinner with Peter Mandelson – he’s blind to people of lower status”, was a headline in the Daily...
I believe Peter Mandelson when he says that he did not know that Jeffrey Epstein was a criminal liar
I see that Peter Mandelson is in the hot seat again and in danger of losing his job as UK ambassador to the US....
Graham Linehan’s airport arrest shows the ugly reality of trans extremism
Discussing genitals is not high on my agenda when I’m writing this column, but the issue is very topical. Published:...
Calling Pat Finucane a human rights lawyer is an insult to decent lawyers slaughtered by the IRA
This month marked the 50th anniversary of the murders by the IRA of two fine men who represented people across the...
Pat Finucane’s murder was heinous, yet it is wrong to describe him as a human rights lawyer
Often, when it comes to Ireland, governments of the United Kingdom lose their moral compass. Published: 19 September...
Republicans honour their dead even when they have done evil acts, we don’t honour sufficiently the people who took the morally brave path
I am eternally grateful to the people of Northern Ireland for giving me so many examples over several decades of...