The knives come out for Ampleforth and its monks
The DfE has banned new admissions to Ampleforth following a child abuse scandal. But this former pupil remains thankful to the school’s Benedictine monks
Ethiopia weeps again
The Ethiopian prime minister’s Nobel Peace Prize appears increasingly ludicrous as he risks civil war
Time for the Covid-19 protest kiss
You don’t have to rush the Bastille to regain some freedom; a French kiss will suffice
Confessions of a dirty pilgrim
It doesn’t always pay to follow the most organised and efficient path
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
Are we entering an age of post-humourism?
Just when we need it more and ever, society’s sense of humour appears to be in terminal decline
The thorny problem Christianity and Judaism never address
Why do Christianity and Judaism still find it so hard to get along?
Flirting with the abyss
A benign trip to hospital offered a stark reminder that consciousness hangs by a deathly thread
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer