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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
