Sounding Board
Tolerance? Intolerable!
National debate used to be encouraged by the Anglican state — but those days are fast disappearing
The courage to defeat Evil
Why are people fighting a long-dead slave trade rather than resisting the triumph of a real one?
Bishops’ different hymnsheet
The Church of England has worked to broaden its diversity of background, but its diversity of opinion has declined
Learning to love on Twitter
Our online behaviour is, if the last two months are anything to go by, depressing
Sacred — and vital — spaces
A church is not the same as an old castle or a pub
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
God’s comeback
The Church of England has found God again
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Christmas drinks
Fergus Butler-Gallie blesses that which unites church and pub
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
