Hungary’s natalist policies are both generous and effective

‘A Citizens’ Assembly is a useful way for politicians to unload a toxic issue onto 110 random citizens who will never face an electorate’

‘Since the referendum, the attitude of the Irish government to the result—contemptuous, disbelieving, disrespectful—has grated. Leo Varadkar, a conformist individual, was in office at just the time when a fixer was what was needed’

The Vatican misjudged the public mood over Richard Williamson, but secular commentators don't understand the idea of excommunication

‘Turkey's membership would mean a European Union bordering on Iraq and Syria’