Charles Wide
Charles Wide has served the Church of England for more than 40 years as church treasurer, secretary and warden, Deanery Synod member, Reader, and volunteer hospice chaplain
The curious case of Project Spire
How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes?
How the Church blew it on race
A secretive Church of England commission is intent on seeing bigotry everywhere
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion
How to alienate good people
Having insulted thousands of its blameless members, the Church of England now aims to embed racial distinction in its very structures
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
