Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Executing the wills
The destruction of Britain’s probate records archive must be averted
Refuting the flat Earth fallacy
This rollicking adventure indicts lazy and self-satisfied readings of the past
In defence of narrative history
Stories make scholarship human
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia
The numbers game has incentivised bad behaviour
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
