Matthew Roberts
Matthew Roberts is the former Moderator of Synod of the International Presbyterian Church and the current Minister of Trinity Church York. He tweets at @MPWRoberts
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
Christmas shows us why lives are worth saving
Like the ancient world, we have an inability to explain or even value ourselves
Why we’re fighting the Welsh lockdown
The life which we must preserve is not just that of the body, but of the soul also
Don’t shut our churches again
The Church is the only place we can find true deliverance from Covid
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
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
