Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
How to start a church choir
It is time to renew choral music — and our culture
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
Lessons for restoration from the Wiltshire wilderness
We must reacquiant ourselves with the spirit of English history
Dress better for England
A tie that binds might be an actual tie
George Herbert: Striving for the divine
The poet who should be celebrated by the Church of England
Why the Venerable Bede should be England’s patron saint
He did much to form our culture, unlike the elusive St George
Signposts of the sacred and mundane
What would it have been like to worship in parish churches in the Middle Ages?
Crossed out
Why does Christianity get erased from the history of British social reform?
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Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
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Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
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Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
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Talent and temptation
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