The questionable innocence of Pontius Pilate
Steve Morris argues that this new book about Pontius Pilate helps us understand the limits of state and law
The forgotten art of the handwritten letter
The humble handwritten letter has made a comeback during the coronavirus pandemic – but will it last?
Hats off to the great British greasy spoon
Steve Morris celebrates the great British institution of the greasy spoon ‘caff’ and predicts that it will thrive again in a post-Covid world
New universities in the early Eighties: an elegy
Steve Morris reflects on his time at the University of East Anglia with his contemporary, Iain Dale
C. S. Lewis: The making of a reluctant Christian superstar
Rev. Steve Morris identifies Lewis’s experience at a remote World War Two airbase as defining the way of talking to regular people about the spiritual life
Why is atheism no longer cool?
How the New Atheists failed to make God go away
The iconic history of London’s 100 Club
Steve Morris recalls the iconic Oxford Street basement club which has housed London’s evolving music scene since the Second World War
The Scandi-noir plot to change Sweden
Sweden couldn’t have been as bad as depicted in Sjowall and Wahloo’s novels – after all it produced ABBA and Ikea
The lost art of the Christmas single
The great Christmas singles came from the broken remains of a country that had forgotten how to be itself
Reclaiming Becket
London’s great saint needs a reboot
Event horizon
Boris’s believable border boasts
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth
A kind of loving
Lincoln Allison is moved by a cache of his father’s wartime love letters and what they reveal about conflict, his parents’ relationship — and a huge generational chasm
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies
The reaction to the BBC Woman’s Hour interview with Zara Mohammed exposes the cliquishness of contemporary feminists
Henpecked Harry & Badgered Boris?
The Prince and the Prime Minister have more in common than we might think
The New York Times
Bad times at the Grey Lady
Honest to goodness
Forget fads such as veganism, and instead eat simply and well says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The redemption we need
After a national Lent that has lasted a year, we can smell the blossom of hope
The easiest country to govern
Michael Coren on the churches aggressively resisting restrictions