Faith
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
Christianity can only save Western Civilisation if it is true
Christ can transform lives in ways that institutions never can
Keeping the faith
Christian building mission to regenerate a town
Perkūnas in Kent
Eastern European “native faith” movements in the UK
What church for what England?
The difficult future of the C of E
The authenticity illusion
We all have a little LARPer inside us
Why the Church fails to get answers from above
The Anglican hierarchy is obsessed with management structures over the real issues of morality, theology and falling congregations
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
Clap for the modern gods
Once people prayed for rain or for sun. Now, we pray for our NHS
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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
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.