An epic hurling battle and football fever at Dublin’s Croke Park
DREW FORREST takes in a traditional Gaelic pastime at Ireland’s biggest sports arena
Taking pot shots at Polanski
The director’s masterful, technically brilliant work is lacking in humanity
From the 2004 M&G election archives
Twenty years ago, our analyst wrote that the ANC had not erred catastrophically enough in government to give the opposition a foot in the door
OPINION: Israel’s crackdown on calories
Was the terrible murder of seven aid workers part of the use of food as a weapon, which has claimed its first lives in Gaza?
‘Salvation is too big a word for me’
Drew Forrest examines the battle between dogmatic faith and practical humanism in French master Albert Camus’ finest novel, ‘The Plague’
Putin’s claim of landslide is ‘farcical’
The presidential election merely confirms Russia’s descent into a full-blown military dictatorship
Composer not so very suite …
The cult of JS Bach’s solo cello works highlights a misguided modern tendency to deify the composer, argues Drew Forrest
Elgar makes a plea for Test cricket
In an interview with Drew Forrest, the Test opener insists our first-class game cannot be fixed using another, entirely different, format
Who are the terrorists in the Gaza conflict?
Amid Israel’s increasingly unhinged siege of the enclave, Drew Forrest probes the country’s claim that it is fighting a war against terror
Gaza: The death of a historic city?
Fears persist that Gaza is to be rendered permanently unliveable and its people shunted to tent camps
