Deborah Frances-White
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
