Luke Warde
Articles by Luke Warde
2025
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Politics
Both Sides Now
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History
Written on Water
2024
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Ideas
Confusio Linguarum
2022
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Biography
Are We Civilised at All?
Fintan O’Toole’s personal narrative of Ireland’s ‘ascent to normality’
2021
2020
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The Liar’s Dividend
If what passes for political satire has as its chief effect the buttressing of the belief that all politics is mired in deceit, then shameless,…
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Ideas
Succeeding in Solitude
In 2014, the French writer Sylvain Tesson fell some ten metres while trying to scale the side of a friend’s home. The accident not only…
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World Politics
‘It’s all bullshit’
For trolls, politics is insuperably Manichaean. It is governed by enmity and the notion that things could be otherwise is a saccharine fiction that should…
2019
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World Literature
A troll avant la lettre
‘You can’t say a thing these days’ is the predictable chorus of the reactionary in the face of ‘political correctness gone mad’. In reality they…