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Stop preaching about politics
The Church is in danger of missing an opportunity to be at the centre of national life
No friends at court
Even Mandelson’s legendary luck may have run out
Opposed, for sure, but modernising
Emmanuel Macron’s longer term legacy will not be one of style over substance, but of creating a certain idea of France’s place in the modern world
The view from Zhongnanhai
What Mark Carney saw in Beijing was the inevitability of global communism. Let us pray he is wrong…
Why “The Myth of Mars and Venus” still matters
Deborah Cameron debunked pervasive stereotypes about sex differences
Why we need orchestras
China has grasped that an orchestra is more than a payroll of musicians
Ethics? What ethics?
On the decision to allow puberty blockers for children
Peter Mandelson must go
His conduct has been shockingly disgraceful
The war of inclusivity against distinctiveness
Is the British countryside too British?
The (too) many deaths of Saint Sebastian
Ming Wong lacks the power and sensuality of his supposed inspirations
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians