Finn McRedmond: A politician’s choice of poet tells us a lotThere seems a certain genre of leader inescapably drawn to trotting out a few lines of verse when inspiration strikesThu Jun 17 2021 - 01:00
Boris Johnson right to ditch ‘special relationship’ tagUK leader caught between rock and hard place over US trade dealThu Jun 10 2021 - 01:00
Why did Taylor Swift suddenly get all woke? She capitulated to our one-note cultural landscapeFinn McRedmond: Without dissenting voices, all we are left with is hitmakers’ vaguely political popFri Jun 04 2021 - 05:00
Finn McRedmond: Boris Johnson, a man-child for all seasonsCynics may snort at his Catholic wedding, but he is more complex than we thinkThu Jun 03 2021 - 01:00
Empowerment is not the ultimate goal for most womenPerhaps there is a quiet defiance in not striving for world dominationThu May 27 2021 - 01:00
It just feels way too soon for Coronavirus, The MusicalNovelist Jodi Picoult and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald teamed up to write a musical, chronicling the pandemic experience from five couples’ perspectivesThu May 20 2021 - 08:54
Finn McRedmond: Sock puppet twitter accounts part of a wider problem in public discourseFear of cancel culture may be stifling free speech, but there’s no easy solutionThu May 13 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: What choice did Billie Eilish have but swap sweatpants for stockings?Something inevitable about pop ingenue's decision to undertake revealing Vogue shootThu May 06 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Cummings v Johnson is more Gossip Girl than The West WingIt is hard to avoid the takeaway that this is governance based on vengeance not substanceThu Apr 29 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Morrissey and The Simpsons are both past their sell-by dateComedy and satire have real power but most television humour is safe and toothlessThu Apr 22 2021 - 01:00
Prince Philip emerges as a complicated figure with an even more complicated historyFinn McRedmond: We should dismiss impulse to order the world into simple, moral categoriesThu Apr 15 2021 - 01:03
Cancel culture ignores fact that bad people can create good thingsFinn McRedmond: We must value the work of artists in spite of their so-called moral failingsThu Apr 08 2021 - 01:00
Rise in Union Jack flag-waving is a sign of deep anxiety in the UKFinn McRedmond: Exercises like flag waving are associated with nascent, insecure countriesThu Apr 01 2021 - 01:00
Why Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet is an art workNFTs have forced us to consider what we like about art and why we want to own itThu Mar 25 2021 - 09:14
Men need to stop trying to be our allies and just listen this timeFinn McRedmond: Fear of male violence did not begin with tragedy of Sarah Everard’s murderThu Mar 18 2021 - 09:08
British don’t understand why we don’t understand the royal familyTwelve hundred years of monarchy embeds itself in the national psycheThu Mar 11 2021 - 03:00
Finn McRedmond: Wokeness is dying, another victim of the pandemicAmid global crisis, the requirements of wokeness have become too demandingThu Mar 04 2021 - 01:00
Relax, boomer: Gen Z and the millennials have turned on one anotherSkinny jeans, Harry Potter and hair partings are all in the firing lineThu Feb 25 2021 - 01:00
Are we really entitled to lecture Britain about remembering?It is intellectually lazy to cast British history as a malign story of imperialismThu Feb 18 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Will Andrew Neil’s GB News shake up the media landscape?Broadcaster believes there is an Irish appetite for views that don’t adhere to the liberal leftThu Feb 11 2021 - 01:00
Rumours of the death of cities greatly exaggeratedFinn McRedmond: As we navigate the absence of city life, we are reminded of its worthThu Feb 04 2021 - 01:00
Vaccine war is Johnson’s chance to rewrite the Brexit narrativeEven major historical events are judged on their outcomes, not on details or processesThu Jan 28 2021 - 01:00
Starmer gives British Labour a lesson in Irish historyLabour leader signals he understands need to uphold Belfast AgreementThu Jan 21 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Trump has gone from Twitter…who is next?Tech giants should not have this kind of control over speechThu Jan 14 2021 - 01:00
Boris Johnson shows why optimism is now key in the fight against Covid-19Finn McRedmond: Overpromising makes practical sense when it comes to the vaccineThu Jan 07 2021 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: We should refuse to indulge the cult of celebrities any longerPandemic has not been a great equaliser, the hyper-privileged are not like the rest of usThu Dec 31 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Brexit is not some sort of karmic justiceMany in Ireland maintain a particularly cruel proclivity for schadenfreudeThu Dec 24 2020 - 01:00
Irish in London say new British lockdown ‘a punch in the gut’Alix Gaisford was packing for a flight home when she was alerted of the new restrictionsSun Dec 20 2020 - 21:25
Governments cannot win this ChristmasThey face blame for either for restrictions or for lockdowns that would otherwise followThu Dec 17 2020 - 01:00
We need to argue our way out of our ‘ideological bunkers’Medium of discussion must be moderate in order to effect actual political changeThu Dec 10 2020 - 01:00
Brexiteers line up Ireland as they play blame gameIt looks like a scapegoat is required for the severe consequences of EU departureThu Dec 03 2020 - 01:00
We have finally reached saturation point over Fairytale of New York debateA world dominated by tedious partisan culture wars is of no benefit to anyoneThu Nov 26 2020 - 01:00
Brexit has emboldened casual anti-Englishness among the IrishFinn McRedmond: Nastier impulses of nationalism are increasing in scaleThu Nov 19 2020 - 01:00
What will satirists do now Trump is on his way out?Largely toothless response to such an obvious enemy bodes ill for next four yearsThu Nov 12 2020 - 01:00
A Biden presidency may be vital in final push on Brexit trade dealDepth of the UK-US ‘special relationship’ could yet be a catalyst for progress on a dealFri Nov 06 2020 - 04:00
Finn McRedmond: Why did the Tories get it so wrong over feeding children?Scepticism over online ‘outrage’ blinded them to Marcus Rashford's simple aimThu Oct 29 2020 - 01:00
US presidential debate: who won, was it any good, were there any surprises?Six Irish Times journalists and commentators assess the Trump-Biden face-off in NashvilleFri Oct 23 2020 - 05:28
Finn McRedmond: Ireland’s sick system has been exposed by Covid-19 gender imbalancesLeaving women out of high-level Covid conversations can have nothing but negative effectsThu Oct 22 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Covid-19 pandemic the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theoriesUnderstanding why conspiracies thrive in crises may help prevent them taking holdThu Oct 15 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Trump v Biden charade still had some valueAccountability is the cornerstone of any functioning democracyThu Oct 01 2020 - 01:00
US presidential debate: who won, was it any good, were there any surprises?Five Irish Times journalists and commentators give their verdicts on the Ohio face-offWed Sept 30 2020 - 04:57
Martin right about using social influencers to highlight Covid rulesVan Morrison is irrelevant to the battle to get young people to comply with restrictionsThu Sept 24 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Cometh the hour, cometh the JedwardHow the woke warrior twins capitalised on a zeitgeist and schooled the A-listersThu Sept 17 2020 - 01:00
Finn McRedmond: Jennifer Zamparelli falls foul of amplified outrageThis was another instance of social media exercising an overweening influence on traditional mediaTue Sept 15 2020 - 16:00
Finn McRedmond: Johnson plays NI as a Brexit bargaining chipIdea London holds North’s interests and security on a par with its own is goneThu Sept 10 2020 - 01:00
Culture wars now a proxy for political debateRule Britannia may just be a song, but what row symbolised was something far greaterThu Sept 03 2020 - 01:00
Johnson’s ‘get Brexit done’ cabinet once again found wantingA-levels debacle just the latest blunder by low-quality cabinet not chosen for ability but for loyalty to his Brexit projectThu Aug 20 2020 - 01:00
What is the point of public art if the public does not like it?Finn McRedmond: Such art is not deserving of acclaim simply thanks to its tangible benefitsThu Aug 13 2020 - 01:00
The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flatGerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and artSat Aug 08 2020 - 06:00
UK offers a model for how pubs could reopenWhen pubs reopen, case numbers go up, but the figures tell a more complicated storyThu Aug 06 2020 - 06:46
