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
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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
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
