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
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
International law, what is it good for?
International law should not be the sole guide to foreign policy
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
