Christianity
We need better Christians and better democracy
Religion need not improve our politics but it can
Silence in the Phoenix
On the transcendent qualities of acting
Will religion divide the British right?
Using Christianity as a political prop does not help anyone
How a cross in Corsica sparked a culture war
A dispute over a Corsican village cross has become a proxy conflict in an existential war over French identity
Maker’s dozen
The buildings that forged Christian communities still powerfully impact them
Does Nigel do God?
The Reform leader has an understated but resolute faith
Defenders of the faith
Why the King’s visit to the Holy See matters
The Anglican Communion has come of age
On the Archbishop of Canterbury’s ejection from the worldwide Anglican fellowship
The return of the strong gods?
It’s the first time a European nation has enshrined a special place for a pagan religion
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue