Marcus LerouxA dash for gas — or just hot air?The Conservatives will keep the lights on by building more gas power plants, while Labour panders to its Just Stop Oil mates.5 min read·Mar 14, 2024----
Marcus LerouxTom Nairn and the inevitability that never quite happensThere was a conference earlier this month in Edinburgh on the work of the late Tom Nairn, the Scottish political theorist best known as the…3 min read·Nov 26, 2023----
Marcus LerouxEspionage and the long shadow of British competenceWho killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? As Whodunnits go, it seems somehow lacking in mystery. Not though for Russian state television.3 min read·Aug 29, 2023----
Marcus LerouxAlternative Ulsters, Alternative Irelands: Planters & Gaels PtIIThe townland of Kilmore lies just off the main road between Portadown and Armagh. It has a small Church of Ireland church — which is to…6 min read·Jun 8, 2022----
Marcus LerouxCongressman Neal has done us a favour: Planters & Gaels (Pt I)As a visiting dignitary, it was only fitting that Congressman Richard Neal was given the honour of throwing the opening pitch in a Northern…4 min read·May 28, 2022----
Marcus LerouxHow Sinn Fein’s success may make the union more secureThe prognosis is widely shared: Sinn Fein’s electoral success means that Northern Ireland’s days are numbered.6 min read·May 9, 2022----
Marcus LerouxI remember being slightly flummoxed.“People say, ‘Sure why not look at Northern Ireland?’”, she told us — in my mind I picture her looking out of the window as though to…8 min read·Sep 20, 2021----
Marcus LerouxRiyadh via Guernsey: the strange journey of British exportsImagine for a moment that tiny Jersey and Guernsey were consuming British goods and services on a similar scale to Spain, which has a…3 min read·Sep 14, 2020----
Marcus LerouxThe far right has an Ireland problemEven by the unedifying standards of social media culture wars it was a saddening spectacle.5 min read·Jun 10, 2019----
