Gerry Lynch
Formerly Executive Director of the Alliance Party, Gerry Lynch is now Rector of six Wiltshire villages. He tweets @GerryLynch
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The failure of Anglican managerialism
The decline in church attendance is a symptom of deeper problems than poor management
Must we ban Russia Today?
People can decide whether to watch it for themselves
A country is a home or it’s nothing
Homes for heroes, ordinary people, anyone really – just build them
The case for socialist healthcare in one country
If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?
The blind eye turned to Barrow
What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists?
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
