Pastorship and power
Church leaders should be vigilant against the abuse of authority
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
On kids and imagination
We don’t have to teach them how to play
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
Mourning and moving furniture
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
