Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
