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
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
A heavenly perspective
Thoughts on the plague with St Pauls’ greatest dean, John Donne
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
