Christianity
In praise of friendship
Love for friends becomes love for the world
My fight for free speech goes on
Or else this precedent could silence dissent
The Pope’s African pilgrimage
Does the continent represent the future of Catholicism?
A legal Trojan horse
“Conversion practices” laws are not what they seem
The end of Christendom
Is Christianity now a homeless faith?
Holocaust Memorial Day and Christian lament
We should remember the Shoah with more than vague talk of “values”
Criminalising prayer protects no one
Laws against so-called conversion therapy are threatening the freedom of belief
Christianity’s dying passion
England would miss the faith if it disappeared
Why they hated Benedict
He defended tradition against modernity
Will the real historical Jesus please stand up?
You can’t escape Lewis’s trilemma
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Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
