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Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
WHO knows best
Why are we confusing ourselves with greek variant names?
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Cancelling Christians
Billy Graham wouldn’t be welcomed into Britain today
Vitezlava Kapralova: Waving Farewell (Naxos)
The performances recorded here by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra speak directly to some of our present confusions
Letter from Washington: Same old special relationship
Neediness has defined US-UK relations for 80 years
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
The hardest word
The Catholic Church is resisting huge pressure to apologise for its involvement in indigenous cruelty
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity