Church
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England
Chapel, chanting and chips
Visit these extraordinary communities before they disappear
Let the little children come to me
Don’t hustle kids out of church services
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Treasure-houses of the nation
Britain needs to decide on the future of our great churches — and what we want them to be
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
In Betjeman’s footsteps
Admiring the sheer imaginative power of Wren
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.