Rev Steve Morris
Rev Steve Morris is the vicar of St Cuthbert's, North Wembley in London. Before becoming a priest he ran an advertising agency.
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
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
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Will Sinn Fein paint the town green?
The nationalist party may triumph in the Stormont elections, but it could prove a hollow victory
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
Labour’s Indian problem
The local elections suggest British Indians are drifting away from the Left