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Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Benedict XVI and the dignity of age
Benedict taught us how to treat the elderly
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
Will the real historical Jesus please stand up?
You can’t escape Lewis’s trilemma
The media won’t protect your freedom
Why was the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce ignored?
A Christmas plea for pen and ink
In praise of the small features of civilisation
Labour’s crime plans need more work
Limp idealism has been mixed up with solutions
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators