Ireland’s president-elect Catherine Connolly caught the anti-establishment tide
One thing we should have learned during the tumult of recent years is not to project the present into the future.
Few now discount the prospect of unification. Yet the Republic still struggles to imagine the changes that would be needed to accommodate unionists
The BBC provides an eloquent reminder of the deep-seated neuralgia that took Britain out of its own continent
The US president has surrendered America's global leadership and started a fight with China he cannot win
The long goodbye to the US-led world order means leaders must tread carefully
Trump’s infatuation with Putin is part of a bigger story. For Europeans the US is as much a threat as an ally
The UN General Assembly saw Washington disown the Pax Americana to line up with Russia, Belarus and North Korea. Even China seemed embarrassed
The organising truth behind the US administration’s capitulation over Ukraine is that Trump agrees with Putin
How the president opened the door to an American role in Irish peace-making
By looking away western democracies have surrendered moral authority
The Israeli leader has created an escalatory ladder that ends with a US-supported strike against Iran's nuclear facilities
The coming Budget will set the course for Britain's Labour government
The Labour prime minister has restored Britain's standing in Washington. The bigger challenge is to build a European defence pillar
Diarmaid Ferriter’s history of modern Ireland chronicles the dramatic social, political and economic shifts that have taken place within a generation
Whatever the outcome in November, governments will have to take more responsibility for their own security
The new prime minister will need to use the political capital that comes from a huge majority if he is to keep populism at bay
Tory radicals see a revolution as the path back to power but the pattern has been firmly set since 1922
The Labour leader is criticised as unexciting. Voters want to see Britain restored as a normal country
The Conservatives cannot talk about Brexit. A Labour government cannot ignore it
Realism is not defeatism — Britain has plenty to offer when it concentrates its resources
