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
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
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today