Faith
Clap for the modern gods
Once people prayed for rain or for sun. Now, we pray for our NHS
Preaching to the choir
The Church will soon hit a Hartlepool moment, when people who feel politically unwelcome go elsewhere
The meek inherit nothing
Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”
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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
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
