Ben Phillips
Ben Phillips is a researcher in music, religion and culture, specialising in the study of the Anglican Church in England and Wales. He tweets at @liturgicalben
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Covid and the Church of England’s retreat
Parishioners were ill-served by the Church’s pandemic response
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Do we really need population growth?
Population decline need not mean national decline
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub