Chris Skidmore
Political parties should be broad churches, not sects
We should welcome diversity of opinion among MPs
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy