Arty Types
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
