Christians
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss