Christianity
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)