Church of England
The road to Wigan’s tears
The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe
Concern trolling the clergy
The Church of England should reject The Times’ advice
Blessed are the poor? Really?
Why won’t the wealthy C of E help impoverished parishes?
Letting go for God
Selfhood begins with a walking away
Coronation sceptical
Against the tyranny of twee
The sacred Coronation
The ancient ritual at the heart of a very modern ceremony
Monarchy re-enchanted
The new Coronation liturgy underlines Charles III’s sacral kingship
In praise of friendship
Love for friends becomes love for the world
The culture wars drag on
In which your correspondent visits a drag show in a church
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
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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
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up